On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 01:54:28PM -0500, Damon Anton Permezel wrote: > On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 08:40:11PM +0200, Bernd Walter wrote: > > On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 10:51:54AM -0500, Damon Anton Permezel wrote: > > > So, in violation of the networking "be liberal in what you accept and > > > conservative in what you produce", sendmail in it's new form will have many > > > perplexed sysadmins spending lots of time tracking down these mysterious > > > failures. > > > > > > I suggest that the version of sendmail configs shipped with FreeBSD > > > should default to having WorkAroundBrokenAAAA set by default. > > > > That would break v6 support and only works for sendmail just to handle > > broken nameservers. > > If someone has running a broken nameserver - that's their problem. > > If you don't want programms to ask for v6 records then build a kernel > > without v6 support at all. > > Ok. Explain to me how this breaks v6 support?
You can't properly canonify a hostname if you possibly drop resources on the floor. Just imagine a loaded server just did not answer the AAAA request in time, but did for the A request. -- B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de [EMAIL PROTECTED] Usergroup [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
