Hi All,

I recently upgraded my debian server from courier 0.61 to 0.63 and am now having strange problems associated with courier's use of DNS.

I have always run with BOFHCHECKDNS=1 (the default) without issue.  However, after upgrading all domains were rejected in both inbound and outbound smtp mail.  Examples:

Jan 25 07:58:25 aloha courieresmtp:
id=00000000032E4D3E.000000004B5D8509.00000D76,from=<[email protected]>,addr=<[email protected]>:
DNS lookup failed.
Jan 25 09:20:06 aloha courieresmtp:
id=00000000031FC00E.000000004B5DEDBA.000064D0,from=<[email protected]>,addr=<[email protected]>:
DNS lookup failed.

Jan 24 18:27:41 aloha courieresmtpd:
error,relay=::ffff:209.85.210.189,from=<[email protected]>: 417 DNS
lookup failure: gmail.com.  Try again later
Jan 24 18:28:02 aloha courieresmtpd:
error,relay=::ffff:209.85.222.148,from=<3wr1dswaaeyclyo2zto-mprtyyp23rzzrwpr2z503....@groups.bounces.google.com>:
417 DNS lookup failure: groups.bounces.google.com.  Try again later.
Jan 24 18:49:08 aloha courieresmtpd:
error,relay=::ffff:64.79.150.121,from=<[email protected]>: 417
DNS lookup failure: netbeans.org.  Try again later.

DNS is configured and working fine with all other software on the server.  E.g.:

aloha:/etc/courier# dig +short MX gmail.com
30 alt3.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.
40 alt4.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.
5 gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.
10 alt1.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.
20 alt2.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.
aloha:/etc/courier# dig +short A alt3.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com
209.85.218.11
aloha:/etc/courier# dig +short MX groups.bounces.google.com
5 gmr-smtp-in.l.google.com.
10 alt1.gmr-smtp-in.l.google.com.
10 alt2.gmr-smtp-in.l.google.com.
aloha:/etc/courier# dig +short A gmr-smtp-in.l.google.com
209.85.221.205
aloha:/etc/courier# dig +short MX manawiz.com
0 manawiz.com.
aloha:/etc/courier# dig +short A manawiz.com
64.34.170.220
aloha:/etc/courier#

I reset BOFHCHECKDNS to 0 to work around this issue, and then for the past couple days have been trying to send a message to this list.  Other messages I'm sending, or my users are sending, are generally getting to their recipients, but not messages to the courier-users list.  They are all getting delayed-delivery responses with DNS failures, e.g.:

<[email protected]>:
<<< DNS lookup failed.

The only way I'm able to send this message is to subscribe my gmail account and send from there.  As best I can tell, my courier installation will not send to the courier-users list.

How does courier access DNS?  Any ideas on how I can resolve this issue?  Having BOFHCHECKDNS=0 is letting much more spam through, a big problem, so I really need to change it back.

Thanks for any help,

Chuck

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