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Re: "reject_unknown_reverse_client_hostname" bouncing mail when name server is down
From: Harvey Smith (harvey
buskers.org)
Date: Thu Aug 24 2006 - 12:41:52 CDT
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On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 11:21:46AM -0500, Jordan Russell wrote:
> Wietse Venema wrote:
> > That would be a bug in the library. The solution is to send a bug
> > report and request that it be fixed.
>
> Supposing I did that, and both the Linux and BSD folks agreed that it
> actually was a bug, I'd also have to convince the OS vendors to backport
> the fix and put out updated libc packages for their existing releases.
> That I don't really see happening.
Suppose instead you found all the packages for linux and BSD that used
libc's getnameinfo() and contacted all the maintainers to convince
them to implement a workaround for this bug in libc and then convinced
all the OS vendors to backport all the new packages?
--
Harvey
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