Subject: Re: bin/31369: sendmail default configuration sensitive to DNS misconfigurations
To: None <gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org>
From: Rhialto <rhialto@falu.nl>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 09/22/2005 13:56:31
On Thu 22 Sep 2005 at 09:18:00 +0000, krille@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
> FEATURE(`msp', `[localhost.]')dnl

Generally, adding a period after a name is supposed to indicate that it
is a FQDN, specifically so that it is not turned into
localhost.myisp.de. I guess there is some problem in the name lookup
though.

I would guess that [127.0.0.1] is not used because of potential
IPv6-only hosts.

-Olaf.
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