Hi HP3000-L,

It appears that dnscheck gets confused if your hostnames (MPE FQDN, DNS A, DNS
PTR) are not consistently in uppercase or lowercase.  I will fix this the next
time I do another sendmail update.

For those of you in mixed-case environments where dnscheck is failing -- why
aren't all of your hostname instances using the same case?  Is there some
technical reason or standards compliance reason?  Or is it just careless
inconsistency?

- Mark B.

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> HP-3000 Systems Discussion <[log in to unmask]> skrev 2005-03-01
> 11:55:28 :
>
>
>>If you look at the output from the "PTR" lookup it says that it found it.
>>
>>; <<>> DiG 8.1 <<>> -x PTR IN
>
> ...
>
>>;; ANSWER SECTION:
>><myhp ip - reversed>.in-addr.arpa.  1H IN PTR  <MYHP>.<mydomain>.
>
> ...
>
>>Therefore; I think that it's not my DNS setup is wrong but the AWK
>>script that checks DIG's output is broken. Is anybody able to
>>confirm my assumption?
>
>
> Hi
> I think I had this problem, only in my case I was not trying to run an
> install script, I was just checking our DNS-config when installing a new
> machine (knowing our network/DNS admins ...).
> It was a matter of case, and the test just after the awk-script (if [
> "X$PTR" != "X" ] && expr " $PTR " : ".* ${FQDN}[.] .*" >/dev/null;) is case
> sensitive (which I'm not sure that it should be). If I understand correctly
> (and I trust I'll be corrected...) domain names are supposed *not* to be
> case sensitive (or possibly always in upper case), however, a DNS should
> return names in the case they're entered (so there is an opportunity for
> confusion ;-).
> I'm not sure if I tweaked the script to be case-insensitive, or got the
> DNS-admin to change case (or just didn't care)...
>
> hth
> /per
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> Per Ostberg
> Karolinska University Hospital Lab-IT / C1 51 /
> SE-141 86  HUDDINGE / SWEDEN
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