On Sat, 1 Sep 2001, Peter van Dijk wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 09:14:59PM -0400, Steve Linberg wrote:
>
> > Section E.2 of "Life with Qmail" ("Why can't I send mail to a large site
> > with lots of MX's?") suggests that the server might be returning too large
> > a response, and refers to the patch to allow bigger DNS packets. I'm just
> > about positive I used this patch; the suggested test (sending a message to
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and seeing if it clears the outbound queue)
> > works successfully.
>
> Hm, that does suggest that you have the patch. But you should be sure,
> so check it.
(Hi, Peter, and thank you for your response!)
Is there another way to check it? I deleted the source tree after
building it. I'm really just about positive I did this already, but I
don't know any other way to check. Like I said, I did a test mail the the
large-mx address and it came back with a "no such user" response from the
remote server.
> Testing on a BIND 8.2.4 cache, it indeed returns a 931 byte response
> for MX msn.com. dnscache is much more sane and only returns 373 bytes,
> containing just the MX records.
>
> Instead of rebuilding qmail, you may want to consider using dnscache
> instead of BIND.
Urk. That's even worse news, I've spent more time getting BIND to behave
than qmail. :P
No, I do appreciate your advice. I just cringe at this because I'm not an
expert with either BIND/DNS or qmail. Looks like I'll have to become one
now. :)
Is there anything else I can try before I resort to the rebuilding?
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