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Date:      Mon, 20 May 2002 20:40:11 +0200
From:      Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely5.cicely.de>
To:        Damon Anton Permezel <dap@damon.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 4.6-* sendmail misfeatures
Message-ID:  <20020520184010.GD70468@cicely5.cicely.de>
In-Reply-To: <20020520105154.E962@damon.com>
References:  <20020520105154.E962@damon.com>

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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.

-- 
B.Walter              COSMO-Project         http://www.cosmo-project.de
ticso@cicely.de         Usergroup           info@cosmo-project.de


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