On Sat, 14 Mar 2015, Paul Vixie wrote:
ultimately what matters is whatever works. if cloudflare decides to stop answering QTYPE=ANY then it would take all million or so qmail customers complaining to cloudflare's NOC to get cloudflare to change its mind. i don't think that's going to happen, for a number of reasons, one of which is that the corner case qmail is depending on was a bad idea originally and has gotten nothing but worse since then. but let's run the experiment, shall we?
I bet most qmail installs run from distributions that have included the CNAME patch. I'm not sure if this is going to break more than 1 server. All debian qmail packages come with: http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/non-free/q/qmail/qmail_1.03-49.2.diff.gz + * Applied patch to dns.c to allow e-mail to deliver correctly to systems where + their DNS size is greater > 512. Fixes "CNAME Lookup Failure" error when + delivering mail to aol.com + + -- Jon Marler <jmar...@debian.org> Sat, 29 May 1999 12:33:00 +0100 This ship sailed 16 years ago. The only people at risk are those who compiled from source without applying patches. Paul _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
