Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Oct 06, Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> See the news.software.nntp traffic with people having strange problems >> with pathnames and message ID generation because of .localdomain. >> There have been a few separate cases of that over the past year or so. > Not relevant. They would have the same problems with 127.0.0.1 = localhost. No, they won't, because INN ignores hostnames that do not contain a period for the purposes of generating external identifiers, specifically to keep from using things like localhost or other unqualified names that aren't globally unique. Adding the pointless .localdomain thing breaks that sort of simple sanity check. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
