Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 13:54:28 -0500 From: Damon Anton Permezel <dap@damon.com> To: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely5.cicely.de> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.6-* sendmail misfeatures Message-ID: <20020520135428.H962@damon.com> In-Reply-To: <20020520184010.GD70468@cicely5.cicely.de>; from ticso@cicely5.cicely.de on Mon, May 20, 2002 at 08:40:11PM %2B0200 References: <20020520105154.E962@damon.com> <20020520184010.GD70468@cicely5.cicely.de>
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On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 08:40:11PM +0200, Bernd Walter wrote: > On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 10:51:54AM -0500, Damon Anton Permezel wrote: > > So, in violation of the networking "be liberal in what you accept and > > conservative in what you produce", sendmail in it's new form will have many > > perplexed sysadmins spending lots of time tracking down these mysterious > > failures. > > > > I suggest that the version of sendmail configs shipped with FreeBSD > > should default to having WorkAroundBrokenAAAA set by default. > > That would break v6 support and only works for sendmail just to handle > broken nameservers. > If someone has running a broken nameserver - that's their problem. > If you don't want programms to ask for v6 records then build a kernel > without v6 support at all. Ok. Explain to me how this breaks v6 support? Also, as far as I know, I *have* built a system with no v6 support. I have been running systems for years now with ipv6 interfaces, and I do not believe I have ever exchanged an IPv6 packet with anyone, so I nolonger include v6. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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