On 04/21/2015 09:26 AM, Björn Persson wrote: > Philip Prindeville wrote: >> The behavior I’ve seen implies that [Thunderbird] caches the address >> from the original resolution and keeps trying to reconnect to that. > > Well, if it would cache the address for longer than its time to live, > then it would be doing it wrong.
There is a widespread belief that web browsers have to do that to counter certain vulnerabilities (the exploit technique is sometimes called “DNS rebinding”). -- Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
