In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jorey Bump <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Ronald F. Guilmette wrote, at 07/30/2008 03:19 PM: >> I was just perusing the /var/log/messages file on a system I have >> that's currently running Postfix 2.5.1 and I saw the following messages: >> >> Jul 29 19:47:42 roomy postfix/smtpd[72875]: gethostby*.getanswer: asked for >"ip200.208-100-19.vswitch.static.steadfast.net IN A", got type "DNAME" >> Jul 29 22:34:26 roomy postfix/smtpd[36437]: gethostby*.getanswer: asked for >"ip40.216-86-147.vswitch.static.steadfast.net IN A", got type "DNAME" >> Jul 29 22:42:41 roomy postfix/smtpd[36743]: gethostby*.getanswer: asked for >"ip40.216-86-147.vswitch.static.steadfast.net IN A", got type "DNAME" >> Jul 30 04:26:11 roomy kernel: pid 68220 (local), uid 125: exited on signal 1 >1 >> >> Questions: >> >> 1) What are those "DNAME" messages all about? > >DNAME (rfc2672) is like CNAME, but is applied at the domain level: Ummm... Yea. I already Googled and learned that part. I guess that I didn't phrase my question very well. What I was really rather wondering was (1) What's wrong with getting a DNAME back when you asked for an A? and also (2) Why are these specific errors considered (by Postfix) to be of sufficiently special importance that it feels the need to put them into my /var/log/messages file, as opposed to, you know, the /var/log/maillog file, where (virtually) all other messages from all parts of Postfix usually go? >I've never seen these errors from Postfix myself, so maybe it's an issue >with your platform. I doubt it. I'm not running anything particularly out of the ordinary. > What is your environment? FreeBSD 6.3, with a freshly installed BIND 9.5.0-P1. If there's anything the least bit unusual about my setup, it's probably that new bind release.
