https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/transient-parse-errors-sendmail/m-p/2864372#M579983 Also ensure that your /etc/nsswitch.conf is properly configured. This will screw up sendmail pretty quickly. Sat, 14 Dec 2002 15:22:56 GMT Chris Vail 2002-12-14T15:22:56Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/transient-parse-errors-sendmail/m-p/2864370#M579981 We're running Sendmail 8.11 on 11.11, and the machine is a caching-only dns server. We continuously get Transient Parse errors from sendmail scrolling to the console and root win. I know how to turn off the scrolling, but how to I stop the error? None of the old messages helped--wrong versions Fri, 13 Dec 2002 21:26:23 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/transient-parse-errors-sendmail/m-p/2864370#M579981 MTSU_SAN 2002-12-13T21:26:23Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/transient-parse-errors-sendmail/m-p/2864371#M579982 transient parse errors generally point to name server issues - narrow it down by seeing if the problem is peculiar to particular domains (problem with a remote name server) or all domains (problem with your name server). Fri, 13 Dec 2002 22:07:00 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/transient-parse-errors-sendmail/m-p/2864371#M579982 Christopher Caldwell 2002-12-13T22:07:00Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/transient-parse-errors-sendmail/m-p/2864372#M579983 Also ensure that your /etc/nsswitch.conf is properly configured. This will screw up sendmail pretty quickly. Sat, 14 Dec 2002 15:22:56 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/transient-parse-errors-sendmail/m-p/2864372#M579983 Chris Vail 2002-12-14T15:22:56Z