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Diffstat (limited to 'fetchmail.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fetchmail.c | 18 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/fetchmail.c b/fetchmail.c index d6b9420b..7abdb1e0 100644 --- a/fetchmail.c +++ b/fetchmail.c @@ -667,20 +667,6 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) report(stderr, GT_("attempt to re-exec fetchmail failed\n")); } -#if defined(HAVE_RES_SEARCH) && defined(USE_TCPIP_FOR_DNS) - /* - * This was an efficiency hack that backfired. The theory - * was that using TCP/IP for DNS queries would get us better - * reliability and shave off some per-UDP-packet costs. - * Unfortunately it interacted badly with diald, which effectively - * filters out DNS queries over TCP/IP for reasons having to do - * with some obscure Linux kernel problem involving bootstrapping of - * dynamically-addressed links. I don't understand this mess - * and don't want to, so it's "See ya!" to this hack. - */ - sethostent(TRUE); /* use TCP/IP for mailserver queries */ -#endif /* HAVE_RES_SEARCH */ - #ifdef HAVE_RES_SEARCH /* Boldly assume that we also have res_init() if we have * res_search(), and call res_init() to re-read the resolv.conf @@ -805,10 +791,6 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) } } -#if defined(HAVE_RES_SEARCH) && defined(USE_TCPIP_FOR_DNS) - endhostent(); /* release TCP/IP connection to nameserver */ -#endif /* HAVE_RES_SEARCH */ - /* close connections cleanly */ terminate_poll(0); |