I just retired my RH 7.2 sendmail server and replaced it with a RH 9 postfix
server. I thought things were running well, but this morning I've been
getting a lot of undeliverables with the message "host was found, but no
data records of the requested type." Many messages go through, but many do
not. I can try the same message 5-10 times and get the same error. Then if I
do host -t MX <target-domain> it returns the needed address instantly. Then
the next time I try to send the message it goes through.

If you watch tcpdump this whole time, you won't see the server even *try* to
resolve the target domain. You do see it making and answering queries, just
not the one you want. Then if you issue the host -t MX command, you see that
in the trace. Then you see postfix send the e-mail.

I think this started when I added acls to named.conf. Could this be because
I didn't allow queries from 127.0.0.1? When postfix calls gethostbyname()
does it do it from 127.0.0.1 or from the IP address bound to eth0?

--Eric





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