Package: sendmail
Version: 8.13.8-3
Followup-For: Bug #482375
This bug is triggered by /etc/network/if-up.d/sendmail if the host's IP
address could not be reverse lookuped on ifup (i.e. boot). The script
calls update_host() from /usr/share/sendmail/dynamic which (re)creates
/etc/mail/m4/dialup.m4.
Update_host() uses the find_host() to do the reverse lookup.
If $(host IP) returns ";; connection timed out; no servers could be
reached" this value is taken as you hostname and your sendmail is broken
if you have dialup.m4 included to your sendmail.mc.
Small patch to stop the if-up.d script to write a bad hostname to
dialup.m4:
--- /usr/share/sendmail/dynamic 2006-12-09 05:22:56.000000000 +0100
+++ dynamic.fix 2008-07-02 14:38:47.000000000 +0200
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@
fi;
test=$(echo $SM_host | cut -d ' ' -f 1);
if [ "$test" = ";;" ]; then
- :;
+ SM_host='';
elif [ "$test" != "**" ]; then
break;
fi;
This fix will give some additional delay if the nameserver(s) in
/etc/resolv.conf are not reachable (i.e. localhost => bind is being
started some times later during bootup).
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