Ubuntu
sendmail package

  1. Bug #99459
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 99459

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Fabien Tassin (fta) wrote :

It occured a second time last week after I did an update using the update manager. I had to manually edit dialup.m4 once again.

The bug is in sendmail-8.13.8/debian/local/dynamic.in in the find_host() function called by update_host().
I guess $(host $SM_ip) simply fails.
This is a serious flaw as it breaks mail delivery.

This box is on a fixed LAN with two resolvers properly configured (1 being on the same LAN). This is not a dialup box depending on an ISP. Those two DNS servers are perfectly fine. So either it's caused by another package (Avahi ? NetworkManager ?) or by something else being upgraded at the same time.