Very Computer

I had a transient problem with Sendmail 8.9.3

For several hours from 10/9/00 11:00 EDT - 10/10/00 08:00 EDT I got
messages of the form:

Oct  9 11:03:40 harbor sendmail[23065]: LAA23065: ruleset=check_mail,

Both before and after this interval they are able to relay. During the
time frame I was getting the errors, I was able to do both forward and
reverse lookups on the domain in the message. No other users seemed be
effected

I did this using as DNS servers: harbor (the mail relay in question); a
mail server at cmu.edu, and one of the authoritative name server for
popsite.net.

So my questions are: (a) is this error triggered by something in the
envelope that does not appear in the message; (b) can anything besides
DNS trigger this; (c) any ideas?

Thanks for any help

Which OS?

(a) No.
(b) Depends on your service switch file.
(c) Depends on your OS; we got a report that Solaris 2.x may cause
problems if nsswitch.conf has a certain format.

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BSDI 3.1. As a BTW this was a transient condition that went away with no
action on my part and has not reoccurred. The user claims to have taken
no action, thinking I fixed the problem.

Sorry - I do know the terminology, does this mean sendmail.c[Tw],
virtusertable, access DB and the like??

Quote:> (c) Depends on your OS; we got a report that Solaris 2.x may cause
> problems if nsswitch.conf has a certain format.

As above BSDI 3.1 - straight install. We are using _RELAY_ACCESS_FROM_
from http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/chk89-opt.html. I do not know the
BSD equivalent of nsswitch.conf

No. See doc/op/op.me:

   2.5.  The Service Switch
        ...  The
      ServiceSwitchFile option points to the name of a  file
      that  has  the service definitions.  Each line has the
      name of a service and the possible implementations  of
      that service.  For example, the file:

          hosts     dns files nis
          aliases   files nis
        ...
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