Bizarre sendmail gets wrong MX value!!

From: Peter Stokes (peter_at_ashlyn.co.uk)
Date: 08/27/03

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    To: sunmanagers <sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org>
Date: 27 Aug 2003 18:06:00 +0100

    Hi All

    Hope you can help me with this one as it makes no sense to me

    I two systems which I loaded and should have the same version of 2.6
    installed (they were loaded 1+ years ago and have differing packages
    loaded). I have setup both to simply send mail out without using a
    mailhub (sendmail.cf.new in /etc/mail).

    One system works no problem, the other appears after comparing sendmail
    debug options to NOT pickup the MX record for the domain it is sending
    to correctly and I think picks up the A record instead, because it tries
    to send the mail to the webserver of the domain instead of the
    mailserver for the domain and hence gets a reject from the mailer on the
    webserver.

    Now both machines are running the same sendmail.cf (V8.8.8+Sun version
    sendmail) and both are on the same subnet.

    When I run the -d8.8 with sendmail I get no MX info from the failing
    one, only on the working one.

    Any clues where to look as I guess it is some sort of library issue?

    Thanks

    Peter
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