> Therefore, I believe that the > original problem is a failing in the interface to tcpwrappers because it > can't say "unable to check at present, please give a temporary error". > (This is no doubt because in the uses for which it was designed, the > only requirement was for yes/no rather than yes/no/maybe.)
Yes, I took a look through the source to tcpwrappers, there's clearly nothing to deal with this sort of situation which is why all I could suggest was zeroing errno before the call and checking for a few "drop dead" values afterwards. Not much, but all we can do. John -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
