Subject: Re: bin/31369: sendmail default configuration sensitive to DNS misconfigurations
To: None <gnats-admin@netbsd.org, netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org>
From: Rhialto <rhialto@falu.nl>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 09/22/2005 11:57:02
The following reply was made to PR bin/31369; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Rhialto <rhialto@falu.nl>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: gnats-admin@NetBSD.org, netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: bin/31369: sendmail default configuration sensitive to DNS misconfigurations
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 13:56:31 +0200
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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