Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 01:28:39 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Hackers) Subject: Re: Resolver broken? [Was:nfs startup - perhaps it is a problem] Message-ID: <19970916012839.ZH62432@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <19970915165338.14706@lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Sep 15, 1997 16:53:38 %2B0930 References: <199709142148.OAA22603@usr09.primenet.com> <199709150141.CAA26286@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> <19970915084314.IA03797@uriah.heep.sax.de> <19970915165338.14706@lemis.com>
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As Greg Lehey wrote: > Been there, done that. I'd categorize this as a sendmail bug, > however. There's nothing in the /etc/hosts world which suggests that > a . at the end of a name is legal. Programs should not need to know how the resolving is actually done. Appending a dot to force a name into the root domain and bypass name search order is a commonly accepted method, as such, the /etc/hosts resolving should know how to handle it. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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