Help! Resolver libraries playing havoc

2007-12-25 7:18:00

I apologize for not posting this sooner, but my mailer kept

sending it down /dev/null.

My original question was:

>In the continuing story of the quack who's been bitten by the

>sendmail DEMON, I have been trying different things to combat the

>problem. Foremost is compiling IDA-SENDMAIL. However, MY

>RESOLV LIBRARY BLOWS OUT GETHOSTBYNAME. Why? Is this a known

>bug? Help! I'm including a small segment of code which will

>duplicate the problem. . .

><some code>

First, consider me chastised. As was pointed out, I should have

included system information in my posting.

My system is a 3/280, OS 4.1, running NIS.

In spite of this omission, Mark D. Baushke had the appropriate

question when he said:

> Do you know that your nameserver is properly configured?

> Or that your /etc/resolv.conf points to a proper nameserver?

>Why not see what 'nslookup' (a standard DNS tool shipped with most

>systems that ship a -lresolv) says? Try: 'nslookup apollo'.

nslookup then informed me that my nameserver wasn't running

properly. Once that got taken care of, the program compiled with

both -lresolv and without (but it did return different answers).

Moral of the story: watch out for NIS whenever ANYTHING attempts

to use the network and check it thoroughly.

However, when I corrected my nameserver, it blew out what little

amount of sendmail I had configured. Oh, well.... maybe the .cf

file will be cleaner now. Still working on that one.

Thanks to:

"Mark D. Baushke" <mdb@ESD.3Com.COM>

and any others whom my mailer my have chewed up.

Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr.

System Administrator

Advanced Graphics Lab

University of Pittsburgh

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