On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 12:44:34PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > No, they won't, because INN ignores hostnames that do not contain a period > for the purposes of generating external identifiers, specifically to keep > from using things like localhost or other unqualified names that aren't > globally unique. Adding the pointless .localdomain thing breaks that sort > of simple sanity check.
Hmm, how would INN react if it sees a "normal-looking" name (like foo.bar.com) that in turn resolves to 127.0.0.1? It's been a long time since I last run a news server and I used Diablo instead of INN so I'm not familiar with INN's internals. But it seems INN is relying on a broken heuristics... Gabor -- --------------------------------------------------------- MTA SZTAKI Computer and Automation Research Institute Hungarian Academy of Sciences --------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]