On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Noel J. Bergman wrote:
> Chris Burdess reproduced the problem last night, and when I ran a little
> test driver on both Windows and linux, I found that this works on Windows
> and fails on linux:
>
> static public void main(String[] args)
> {
> String host = "193.95.196.170.";
> int port = 25;
>
> try {
> java.net.Socket socket = new java.net.Socket(host, port);
> } catch (java.net.UnknownHostException uhex) {
> uhex.printStackTrace();
> } catch (java.io.IOException ioe) {
> ioe.printStackTrace();
> }
> }
>
> If you remove the trailing '.' from the IP address it succeeds on both.
>
> I ran additional tests to see why connecting doesn't always fail on linux.
> dnsjava lookup (including his current release) adds a trailing '.' to the
> result from the MX record search. If lookup results in a CNAME (canonical
> name, e.g., mail.server.tld) it is handled fine by Sun's linux
> implementation, but if it results in an A record (IP address) it fails (as
> demonstrated above).
>
> So we have a resolution, and understanding of the issue. I am CC'ing the
> JavaMail-Interest list to close the issue, since it is not a JavaMail
> problem (although Sun might look into the differential behavior of Java),
> and Brian Wellington, author of dnsjava.
dnsjava does not add a trailing dot to the result of an MX lookup; it adds
a trailing dot to all absolute domain names. The mail host in an MX
record will have a trailing dot, and the IP address in an A record will
not (as it's not a domain name). If there's a situation where an MX
record points to an IP address instead of a domain name, it won't work,
but it's a broken configuration and shouldn't work.
Adding a trailing dot to an IP address shouldn't work, as it's no longer a
valid IP address.
I don't think this is a problem with dnsjava, but if you think so, give me
specific examples of the failure and I'll look into it.
Brian
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