> So I was wallowing through sbr/client.c, and I came across some weird > code that kicks into place when you prefix a \01 in front of a hostname > in the "servers" line in mts.conf. It turns out that when you do that, > the code in client.c calls getnetbyname() on this name and then > iterates over all of the hosts available (using gethostent()) and tries > to connect to every server on the named network. > > Since this won't work unless you have all of the relevant hosts in your > /etc/hosts file (or you have them in YP/NIS/similar), and I personally > find the utility of this feature rather dubious, I propose to junk > this feature completely. Objections? > > Obviously if this feature is removed, I'd update the man page. I seem > to remember that the default mts.conf had this as an example, but it seems > like that's been cleaned up for a while now. > > --Ken
I'd vote for getting rid of it. Jon _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
