Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 21:14:07 +0200 From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely5.cicely.de> To: Damon Anton Permezel <dap@damon.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.6-* sendmail misfeatures Message-ID: <20020520191407.GA72276@cicely5.cicely.de> In-Reply-To: <20020520135428.H962@damon.com> References: <20020520105154.E962@damon.com> <20020520184010.GD70468@cicely5.cicely.de> <20020520135428.H962@damon.com>
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On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 01:54:28PM -0500, Damon Anton Permezel wrote: > 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? You can't properly canonify a hostname if you possibly drop resources on the floor. Just imagine a loaded server just did not answer the AAAA request in time, but did for the A request. -- B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de ticso@cicely.de Usergroup info@cosmo-project.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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