If qmail is open source then YOU can patch it to your heart's content and might even want to fork the project so you're maintaining it for others.
Expecting BIND to hold itself back or patch itself for 1998 standards is a bit like expecting people that maintain websites to keep support for Mosaic. It's hard enough to get them to do it for Firefox, Chrome, Opera et al let alone going back to things ancient browsers did. -----Original Message----- From: bind-users-bounces+jlightner=water....@lists.isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounces+jlightner=water....@lists.isc.org] On Behalf Of Lazy Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2010 4:42 PM To: bind-users@lists.isc.org Subject: Re: bind 9.7.2-P3 does not resolve www.microsoft.com 2010/12/30 Tony Finch <d...@dotat.at>: > On 30 Dec 2010, at 19:56, Lazy <lazy...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> qmail uses ANY so m$ is not getting any mail from us > > This is several bugs in qmail. It is making the query in order to canonicalize the domain in outgoing email, which it does not need to do according to the current SMTP specs. It should be making an MX query (not CNAME as it originally did and not ANY as it has done since about 1998) in order to find out if the domain needs to be canonicalized. It also has an undersized DNS packet buffer and cannot cope with truncated replies, so even if ANY queries for microsoft.com worked, qmail could not handle the reply. > > Qmail is buggy and unmaintained and has been abandoned by its author. Best avoided. easy for you to say ;) there are still many more or less happy qmail users, maybe we need just another patch ;) Regards Lazy _______________________________________________ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users Proud partner. Susan G. Komen for the Cure. Please consider our environment before printing this e-mail or attachments. ---------------------------------- CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail may contain privileged or confidential information and is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the contents of this information is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this electronic transmission in error, please reply immediately to the sender that you have received the message in error, and delete it. Thank you. ---------------------------------- _______________________________________________ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
