Subject: Re: bin/12876: NetBSD's INET6 patches to Postfix break non-INET6 features!
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org, netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.ORG>
From: None <itojun@iijlab.net>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 05/09/2001 12:34:31
>[ On Wednesday, May 9, 2001 at 11:53:40 (+0900), itojun@iijlab.net wrote: ]
>> Subject: Re: bin/12876: NetBSD's INET6 patches to Postfix break non-INET6 features!
>> then, you at least need to check if the machine is running NIS or not,
>> and suppress getdomainname() case if NIS is running. IMHO.
>No, not really. Half the time the NIS domain is the same as the DNS
>domain, and the rest of the time you have to set $mydomain anyway so
>it's never a loss (the $mydomain setting overrides in all cases).
I disagree. in most of the NIS installations (from my university
days) they used NIS domain name totally different from DNS domain name,
I saw documents that recommended strongly against the use of the
same string, because of "security from obscurity" reasons.
anyway, i do not feel like merging the part of the patch.
itojun