Thanks to all who responded, (See below):
Original question (shortened):
We just started having a problem with mail to and from
Compuserve. It seems sendmail cores. We spoke with
Compuserve and they informed us that they just did a
major update to their DNS.
When I use nslookup on compuserve.com I also get a core,
I figure it must be the same, or similar problem. We are
running SunOS 4.1.3 and in.named as our DNS server.
The answer (from Larry J. Blunk) is:
This is a bug in Sun's DNS resolver support under NIS.
It can't handle large numbers of A records for a name
(this is completely legal, by the way, and is done for
either redundancy or load-sharing).
You need the libc jumbo patch. It's 100891-12 for
SunOS 4.1.3 and 101558-06 for SunOS 4.1.3_U1.
You could also get around Sun's bug by changing the
way the DNS data is configured. We use multiple CNAMEs
for a name with each CNAME pointing to multiple A records.
It's kind of kludge, but it gets arounds Sun's bug. You
have to ask CompuServe to make this change.
The problem has (temporarily) dissapeared, due to caching of
DNS data by the name server. As soon as the cache gets flushed,
and we get an Authoritative answer from compuserve the problem
re-appears.
I have not installed this patch but am planning on doing it today.
Thanks to:
"Larry J. Blunk" <ljb@merit.edu>
roy@mss.mss.com (Rahul Roy)
Henry Katz <hkatz@panix.com>
murff@nicimg.com (Jim Murff)
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