Andréas, that's great news.

Re:
> So, I must ask, what do you mean by the dot "fully qualify the domain"?

It's like the difference between "var/mailroot" and "/var/mailroot"
Because dns is reversed in it's structure the "root" is on the right.

Eg:
Folders  = /1/2/3/4/5
DNS      = 5.4.3.2.1.

What actually happens when you DIG without a root dot, is that it tries the
concatenating the local domain of your pc/server as a suffix to your
request.  When that fails it tries one domain higher, etc until the local
domain is just a dot, then it will find the domain as it should.  So you dns
queries should be marginally faster with a root dot.

EG. Local domain is mydomain.com.
Lookup FQ host, host.onedomain.com
Resolves as host.onedomain.com.mydomain.com.
This fails and tries host.onedomain.com.com.
This fails and tries host.onedomain.com.
Tada, resolved.

Interesting to note I also have root dots on my CustMapsList.

Rob :-)


-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Tuesday, 23 May 2006 12:43 AM
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Subject: [xmail] Re: Mail is triggered by CustMapsList in server.tab


I've done the digs Rob suggested and it reports as it should, ie 127.0.0.2
(2.0.0.127) is a positive, almost all others (collected with a "cat
smtp-200605220000 | grep EIPMAP | awk '{print $3}'" ) were negatives.

>You might also want to check what dns queries your machine generates by 
>looking at them with a TCP Dump, which will tell you where it might 
>actually get a "false positive", i.e.:
>"tcpdump -n -i <interface> port 53"

Yep, it just doesn't tell me much. :P

15:47:31.807840 IP 81.171.111.61.4215 > 81.171.111.156.53:  33139+ A?
13.166.10.193.relays.ordb.org. (47)
15:47:31.949345 IP 81.171.111.156.53 > 81.171.111.61.4215:  33139 NXDomain*
0/0/0 (47)
15:47:31.949573 IP 81.171.111.61.4215 > 81.171.111.156.53:  33140+ A?
13.166.10.193.relays.ordb.org.com. (51)
15:47:31.949850 IP 81.171.111.156.53 > 81.171.111.61.4215:  33140
4/0/0[|domain]

[...]

>My list looks as follows:
>
>"CustMapsList"
"relays.ordb.org.:1,rhsbl.sorbs.net.:1,zombie.dnsbl.sorbs.net.:1,
>dnsbl.sorbs.net.:0,bl.spamcop.net.:0"
>
>And it works without a problem.

Mine also worked without a problem until I put my xmail on another server.
Funny thing - with your CustMapsList and after initial tesing - it works.
So, somehow it's that tiny dot that makes all the difference. So, I must
ask, what do you mean by the dot "fully qualify the domain"? Does this
DNS-server work differently than the one I used to use? :P

Maybe I should take the course "DNS 101" to figure this out. :o)

Thanks for the help Jorn and Rob!

Regards
Andréas Bratell

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