diff options
| author | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 1998-07-20 15:50:43 +0000 |
|---|---|---|
| committer | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 1998-07-20 15:50:43 +0000 |
| commit | c6accf946167a097ce1032b5e2c3793967b5b1fa (patch) | |
| tree | bbbc09b3a00635742d7527c821d2d1cdc9b61d06 | |
| parent | b66e31da454fc660bbec795ef62935bfb4af7b75 (diff) | |
| download | fetchmail-c6accf946167a097ce1032b5e2c3793967b5b1fa.tar.gz fetchmail-c6accf946167a097ce1032b5e2c3793967b5b1fa.tar.bz2 fetchmail-c6accf946167a097ce1032b5e2c3793967b5b1fa.zip | |
Warning about DNS change.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=1995
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 11 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -6,10 +6,17 @@ fetchmail-4.5.3 (): `postmaster', not root. Added `postmaster' option to allow override. * DNS names of target servers are now canonicalized only once, at start of run, and then only if they'll actually be needed later for multidrop - checking or fetching Kerberos tickets. This eliminates many gethostbyname - calls. + checking or fetching Kerberos tickets. This change eliminates many + gethostbyname calls. * 1.1 version of fetchmailconf. +Note: the DNS-usage change might conceivably break your configuration +if (a) you're using `no dns' and multidrop and (b) you're not +specifying either a `via' option or pollname that is the host's +canonical name. The thing to watch for will be an illegal domain name +error from your listener. If this happens, just add a `via' option with +the cononical FQDN of the host as argument. + There are 267 people on fetchmail-friends and 249 on fetchmail-announce. fetchmail-4.5.2 (Tue Jul 14 19:02:52 EDT 1998): |