All,
Thank you to everyone who replied on this thread. FWIW, the issue was in fact with Net::DNS. I actually had previously had contact with him regarding other problems, but 0.51 was working for me on another system, so I was a little surprised that this was the fix. I upgraded to the newest (0.53) and the problem has gone away.
Thanks everyone!
email builder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have a new spamd instance I am trying to start up on a server that sits
behind another firewall (linux) machine (which I *think* is irrelevant, but
that's the only different thing from our other setups that work fine) that is
somehow missing DNS connections:
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debug: is Net::DNS::Resolver available? yes
debug: Net::DNS version: 0.51
debug: trying (3) motorola.com...
debug: looking up NS for 'motorola.com'
debug: NS lookup of motorola.com failed horribly => Perhaps your resolv.conf
isn't pointing at a valid server?
debug: All NS queries failed => DNS unavailable (set dns_available to
override)
debug: is DNS available? 0
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However, when I telnet to port 53 of one of the IP addresses given in
/etc/resolv.conf, it works just fine:
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] cat /etc/resolv.conf
nameserver 123.456.7.8
nameserver 987.654.1.1
[EMAIL PROTECTED] telnet 123.456.7.8 53
Trying 123.456.7.8...
Connected to 123.456.7.8.xxx.yyy.net (123.456.7.8).
Escape character is '^]'.
quit
Connection closed by foreign host.
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So, is spamd trying to dig the NS of motorola.com? That works on the command
line too:
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] dig ns motorola.com
; <<>> DiG 9.2.5 <<>> ns motorola.com
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 24784
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 5, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;motorola.com. IN NS
;; ANSWER SECTION:
motorola.com. 3594 IN NS motgate.mot.com.
motorola.com. 3594 IN NS ftpbox.mot.com.
motorola.com. 3594 IN NS dns31.mot.com.
motorola.com. 3594 IN NS dns11.mot.com.
motorola.com. 3594 IN NS motgate.motorola.de.
;; Query time: 3 msec
;; SERVER: 123.456.7.8#53(123.456.7.8)
;; WHEN: Tue Jul 19 13:14:17 2005
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 150
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So does this mean that it's actually an issue with Net::DNS or
Net::DNS::Resolver? They are about as up to date as they get I think
(Net::DNS .52 is out now, but I don't really think that's going to fix
it...?).
What should I look at next? What is spamd doing that I am not doing on the
command line???
TIA!
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