'-d8.1'' ''''

-d8.1

DNS name resolution Debug command-line switch

Name resolution is the process of determining a machine's IP address based on its fully qualified domain name. This is done by using the Domain Name System (DNS). The process that sendmail uses to resolve a name is described in Section 9.2.

When sendmail finds that a hostname is really an MX record, it attempts to look up the address (which can be an A or AAAA record) for the host that handles mail receipt. That request can fail for a variety of reasons. If the -d8.1 (a.k.a. -d8) debugging switch is specified, sendmail produces the following message:

getmxrr: res_search(host) failed (errno=errornum, h_errno=herrornum) 

Here, host is the hostname that was looked up, errornum is the system error number (if any) from <errno.h>, and herrornum is the resolver-specific error number from <netdb.h>, as shown in Table 16-7.

Table 16-7. Resolver errors from <netdb.h>

Value

Mnemonic

Description

-1

NETDB_INTERNAL

Error in the lookup code, see errno=

0

NETDB_SUCCESS

Success

1

HOST_NOT_FOUND

Host not found

2

TRY_AGAIN

Temporary DNS server failure

3

NO_RECOVERY

Nonrecoverable errors and refusals

4

NO_DATA

Valid name but no record of requested type



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