Subject: Re: sendmail and named
To: Dustin Sallings <dustin@spy.vs.spy.net>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/25/1996 11:13:17
Dustin Sallings writes:
> 	I noticed a couple of problems with my NetBSD 1.1 dist I picked
> up.  First thing, sendmail doesn't act normally.  If I try to masquerade
> my domain name in any way (either in sendmail.cf or in pine), it sends my
> mail from ``dustin@sendmail.cf''  I hard-coded the domain name and the
> hostname into the sendmail.cf, and the string ``sendmail.cf'' doesn't
> appear anywhere inside of it.

I have no idea how that could possibly happen other than
massive misconfiguration. No one else has ever reported anything like
that happening. Did you try to debug the problem with, for instance,
sendmail -bt?

> 	Also, the stock named seems really mean.  I was running it on my
> gateway machine, and it used up so much cpu and memory that the modem
> couldn't get a word in edgewise.  It managed to run _OK_ if I didn't load
> the root cache and only loaded one primary site (just an inverse
> addressing).

I don't understand how this could happen, either. I've never heard
tell of this situation occuring. You might try the new named from
-current, but frankly I think you must have misconfigured
something. Did you try determining what was taking up all the CPU
time, perhaps by dumping out all the queries as they occurred? The
fact that it only misbehaved if you gave it the root cache is
suspicious -- though I will note that the thing should probably not
work at all without some notion of what the root is...

.pm