On 16:20 04 Mar 2003, William Warren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I did an up2date last night to get the sendmail patch, and I'm curious | about one of the changes I noticed. [...] | < dnl FEATURE(`accept_unresolvable_domains')dnl | --- | > FEATURE(`accept_unresolvable_domains')dnl | | Now, I can understand why Redhat would choose to be conservative, | and set the port option to localhost only (127.0.0.1), but I'm | puzzled as to why they have turned on the "accept_unresolvable_domains" | option.
Well, not using accept_unresolvable_domains is rather expensive. It makes the mail system do lots of needless DNS lookups. It also means that a DNS outage can make your box start rejecting email. It means that is a domains DNS is completely down, you'll reject email from it. Your call. -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed person. - Mr. Boffo -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
