Victor Duchovni: > On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 02:05:12AM -0300, Reinaldo de Carvalho wrote: > > > I suggest update transport documentation changing '*' to last lookup order. > > > > Beacause users can to deduct erroneously that '*' is a wildcard, and > > isn't. '*' is choosed caracter to represent a default > > transport/nexthop, > > It is a wildcard. It is the only wildcard documented for the transport(5) > table. Users can jump to all kinds of conclusions, ... or they can read > the documentation. While a different character would perhaps reduce the > conclusion-jumping, it would be harder to remember. > > I am not convinced that any amount of warnings in the reference > documentation will reduce conclusion jumping, since most users seem > to learn from examples and HOWTO documents, and rarely read reference > documentation.
It makes sense to document '*' as the fourth lookup after user+extens...@domain, u...@domain, and (domain or .domain). Even if that lookup happens during process initialization. But the warning is not needed, because people who need it most don't read documentation. Wietse