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From: rootc@ucselx.sdsu.edu (System Admin)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Sendmail5.61 bug with nameserver
Summary: sendmail gets floating exception after res_send()
Keywords: floating exception sendmail resolve
Message-ID: <4043@ucselx.sdsu.edu>
Date: 20 Sep 89 22:49:17 GMT
Reply-To: root@ucselx.sdsu.edu(System Admin)
Organization: San Diego State University Computing Services
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I am running sendmail5.61 linked against named4.8 resolve.a library.
Occasionally sendmail will dump core with a floating exception.  When
I run sendmail manually with -v -d99, I see:

  res_send()
  HEADER:
	(deleted)
  QUESTIONS:
	asoka.sdsu.edu, type = ANY, class = IN

  Querrying server (# 1) address = 127.0.0.1
  got answer:
  HEADER:
	(deleted)
  QUESTIONS:
	asoka.sdsu.edu, type = ANY, class = IN

  ANSWERS:
	asoka.sdsu.edu
	type = A, class = IN, ttl = 70340, dlen = 4
	internet address = 130.191.229.16

	asoka.sdsu.edu
	type = HINFO, class = IN, ttl = 70340, dlen = 14
	CPU=Motorola
	OS=SYSV

  butler@asoka... Host unknown
  Floating exception (core dumped)

Has anyone seen this error before?  It occurs if the host is found
or not.  Any ideals as to what is going on?  I'm not sure if a routine 
in resolve.a is printing "Host unknown" or if sendmail is.  

Thanks in advance.

Ron Nash
San Diego State University
Internet: nash@ucselx.sdsu.edu
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