[Systems] Possible DNS issues

[Bernie Innocenti]

On 06/19/09 02:26, Sascha Silbe wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 05:23:14AM +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote:
> 
>> For some reasons, some machines in South Asia (at least India and Sri
>> Lanka) are not being able to access translate.sugarlabs.org unless the
>> IP is mentioned in /etc/hosts
> Install djbdns (you don't have to run one of the daemons, you only need
> the tools provided by the package) and follow the instructions at [1].
> 
> 
> [1] http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/debugging.html

Hmmm... djbdns, eh?  Could it be the same subtle issue I had
with qmail some time ago?

I've left this note to self in my zone file:

; WARNING: if we put too many records for sugarlabs.org, qmail-remote
; fails with "CNAME lookup failed temporarily" due to a quasi-bug.
;
; Description:
;   https://lists.isc.org/pipermail/bind-users/1999-June/000649.html
;
; Testcase:
;    /var/qmail/bin/qmail-remote sugarlabs.org bernie at sugarlabs.org bernie at sugarlabs.org
;
; Patch (untested):
;    http://www.ckdhr.com./ckd/qmail-103.patch

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