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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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To: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely5.cicely.de>
Cc: Damon Anton Permezel <dap@damon.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: 4.6-* sendmail misfeatures
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Bernd Walter wrote:
> 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.


I think we should modify the FreeBSD DNS server to respond to
all gethostbyaddr() requests in "pig latin", e.g.:

	lister# nslookup
	> set q=any
	> 112.71.218.66.in-addr.arpa.
	112.71.218.66.in-addr.arpa      name = w1-ay.rc-ay.scd-ay.ahoo-yay.om-cay
	71.218.66.in-addr.arpa  nameserver = ns1-ay.ahoo-yay.om-cay
	71.218.66.in-addr.arpa  nameserver = ns2-ay.ahoo-yay.om-cay

And then modify sendmail and mozilla and Internet Explorer to make up
for our f-'ed up DNS server, since it should "be generous in what it
accepts".

8^P.

-- Terry

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