(oops - meant this to go to the list - Sorry, Peter)
My understanding of the problem was that QMail didn't do an MX lookup - it
did an ANY lookup. That's why QMail has trouble, but other MTA's don't.
Can anyone speak to the validity of this assumption?
<:) Lyndon Griffin
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter van Dijk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, September 12, 1999 10:20 AM
> To: qmail list
> Subject: Re: Should qmail-103.patch be applied to ucspi-tcp?
>
>
> On Sun, Sep 12, 1999 at 10:19:07AM -0400, John K. Chester wrote:
> > I am running qmail-1.03, and have just applied the AOL patch which I
> > obtained from qmail.org (file qmail-103.patch). I note that ucspi-tcp
> > has its own copy of dns.c (content identical to dns.c supplied with
> > qmail-1.03). Should the patch also be applied to ucspi-tcp? I can't
> > find any mention of this in the documentation.
>
> Since tcpclient and tcpserver only do A and PTR lookups, the chance of a
> DNS reply >512 bytes is much smaller than with qmail, which does MX
> lookups.
>
> But I think it should be possible, yes. It's not a bad idea anyway :)
>
> Greetz, Peter
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