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Re: [Nmh-workers] annoying DNS lookups
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Valdis . Kletnieks |
Subject: |
Re: [Nmh-workers] annoying DNS lookups |
Date: |
Thu, 12 May 2011 15:22:42 -0400 |
On Thu, 12 May 2011 14:09:29 EDT, Ken Hornstein said:
> - Client systems are configured with "short hostname".
>
> What's the solution here? If we do what you suggest, nmh will have a
> functionality regression.
Short hostnames are evil, doubly so if the config allows them to escape on the
wire.
If they're using short hostnames and don't have a 'domain foo.bar.baz' in
resolv.conf
to allow canonization, they get what they deserve. There's a limit to how much
misconfiguration we should try to work around.
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