On Sat, Jun 03, Rogier Maas wrote:
Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
"order hosts bind" is a valid syntax and should work in every case. And, the "order" option in /etc/host.conf should be ignored by sendmail. Instead, /etc/nsswitch.conf should be used. Seems a program uses it's own, incompatible resolver library. I thought only libc5 does this, not sendmail :(
Thorsten
That's ehat I thought... But look here!
# man host.conf
Who tells you, that the manualpage is correct ? The only relevant part are the bind, libc5 and glibc sources and documentation. And there stand, that it is correct and the comma is not needed.
"seperated by commas"... This is SuSE Linux 6.4, maybe they've altered this somewhat somehow. I'm not sure.. The minute I changed the space into a comma, the damned thing worked again. This cost me a lot of aspirines, and the mail.suse.com-server a lot of traffic to handle... not nice!
The only question is: Why does it work for over 5 years without problems ? If the syntax is wrong, a lot of more people should have found it due the last 5 years. But I cannot find any bug report about it. I don't know in the moment where the "to the official resolver library from bind incompatible version" comes from, but I will try to find them next week. Thorsten -- Thorsten Kukuk http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/ kukuk@suse.de SuSE GmbH Schanzaeckerstr. 10 90443 Nuernberg Linux is like a Vorlon. It is incredibly powerful, gives terse, cryptic answers and has a lot of things going on in the background. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/