From 45fc85440cc55c05940a96f6a7be82f58528ed68 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric S. Raymond" Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 07:40:43 +0000 Subject: Eliminate some DNS round trips. svn path=/trunk/; revision=1991 --- NEWS | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'NEWS') diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index ea00e3d2..ecdaf6f6 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ * Add an "ident" per-user option for debugging that produces an "X-Fetchmail-ID" header in fetched messages for debugging. -* Can the initial gethostname() be eliminated? Release Notes: @@ -11,6 +10,10 @@ fetchmail-4.5.3 (): * Minor fixes to the GSSAPI code. Seems to work with stock UW IMAP now! * Fetchmail running as root now sends misaddressed multidrop mail to `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 ftching Kerberos tickets. This eliminates many gethostbyname + calls. There are 267 people on fetchmail-friends and 249 on fetchmail-announce. -- cgit v1.2.3