From c6accf946167a097ce1032b5e2c3793967b5b1fa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric S. Raymond" Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 15:50:43 +0000 Subject: Warning about DNS change. svn path=/trunk/; revision=1995 --- NEWS | 11 +++++++++-- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index bb4ad726..d3e52286 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -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): -- cgit v1.2.3