Bug 57333 - sendmail/README is missing from sendmail-doc
Summary: sendmail/README is missing from sendmail-doc
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: sendmail
Version: 7.2
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Florian La Roche
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-12-10 16:11 UTC by Need Real Name
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:38 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2001-12-10 16:11:33 UTC
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Description Need Real Name 2001-12-10 16:11:28 UTC 
The sendmail-doc package doesn't include the README
found in sendmail-8.11.6/sendmail/README which is different from the
sendmail-8.11.6/README
After upgrading to redhat 7.1 or 7.2 sometimes maildelivery 
fails mysteriously. 
The explanation is found in sendmail/README:

`When attempting to canonify a hostname, some broken name servers will 
 return SERVFAIL (a temporary failure) on T_AAAA (IPv6) lookups.  If you
 want to excuse this behavior, compile sendmail with
 -D_FFR_WORKAROUND_BROKEN_NAMESERVERS and add WorkAroundBrokenAAAA to your
 ResolverOptions setting.  However, instead, we recommend catching the
 problem and reporting it to the name server administrator so we can rid the
 world of broken name servers.
'
Comment 1 Florian La Roche 2002-01-09 14:00:21 UTC 
I have added the docu and this compiletime flag, but don't change the
configuration to enable the workaround by default.

Thanks,

Florian La Roche
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