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| author | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 2000-01-17 03:44:18 +0000 |
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| committer | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 2000-01-17 03:44:18 +0000 |
| commit | df5164950561baae8f569d46937c824173ec775c (patch) | |
| tree | e26ef6c6a052660becdb08f815f748881a31ca9f | |
| parent | b097d7472451d1585cf34b4cdfbc94f42c06e00c (diff) | |
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Explain a feature.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=2715
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diff --git a/fetchmail.c b/fetchmail.c index 0fab29a3..1febf8ce 100644 --- a/fetchmail.c +++ b/fetchmail.c @@ -1065,7 +1065,9 @@ static int load_params(int argc, char **argv, int optind) #undef DEFAULT /* - * DNS support is required for some protocols. + * DNS support is required for some protocols. We used to + * do this unconditionally, but it made fetchmail excessively + * vulnerable to misconfigured DNS setups. * * If we're using ETRN, the smtp hunt list is the list of * systems we're polling on behalf of; these have to be |