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-rw-r--r--fetchmail.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
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