Subject:    Re: helo command rejected
> From:       Viktor Dukhovni <postfix-users () dukhovni ! org>
> Date:       2022-12-01 16:56:13
> Message-ID: Y4jcrRxsEJPsWZVZ () straasha ! imrryr ! org
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> On Thu, Dec 01, 2022 at 04:06:30PM +0000, David Dolan wrote:
>
> > This is the full line:
> >
> >  NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from unknown[103.246.251.109]:
> >  450 4.7.1 <wx-use2.prod.hydra.sophos.com>:
> >  Helo command rejected: Host not found;
> >  from=<#############> to=<#############>
> >  proto=ESMTP helo=<wx-use2.prod.hydra.sophos.com>
>
> Indeed the hostname "wx-use2.prod.hydra.sophos.com" exists and has
> multiple IP addresses, requiring support for either TCP or EDNS with a
> UDP buffer larger than 512 bytes   Perhaps your DNS resolver or the C
> library stub resolver are configured to limit DNS to 512 bytes of UDP
> and also don't retry over TCP?  In that case you'd get only a truncated
> response with no answers, and have no way to recover:
>
>     $ dig +nocmd +ignore +norecur +noedns -t a
> wx-use2.prod.hydra.sophos.com @ns-1793.awsdns-32.co.uk
>     ;; Got answer:
>     ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 14328
>     ;; flags: qr aa tc; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
>
>     ;; QUESTION SECTION:
>     ;wx-use2.prod.hydra.sophos.com. IN      A
>
>     ;; Query time: 9 msec
>     ;; SERVER: 205.251.199.1#53(ns-1793.awsdns-32.co.uk) (UDP)
>     ;; WHEN: Thu Dec 01 11:47:53 EST 2022
>     ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 47
>
> Are you on a MUSL libc system?  IIRC there's no support for TCP in
> MUSL's stub resolver.  See, for example:
>
>     https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28312935
>
We do use Alpine Linux so maybe truncation is the issue? I thought it may
have been initially but couldn't find anything confirming

>
> I don't know whether it turns on edns0 by default, or whether that has
> to be done explicitly in /etc/resolv.conf.
>
This suggests that Alpine Linux doesn't support tcp or edns0 for dns
queries so we may be stuck
https://christoph.luppri.ch/fixing-dns-resolution-for-ruby-on-alpine-linux

>
> If adding "options edns0" to /etc/resolv.conf does not solve the
> problem, another solution may be:
>
>     https://dilbert.com/strip/1995-06-24
>
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