Re: Subtle qmail bug? (was Re: Handling an MX record of 0.0.0.0 or 127.0.0.1)

[Peter van Dijk]

On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 10:18:11PM -0000, D. J. Bernstein wrote:
> Patrick Bihan-Faou writes:
> > If you don't count that as a bug in qmail, then I don't know what is a
> > bug...
> 
> In fact, it's not a bug; it's a portability problem. If you were using
> OpenBSD, you'd see outgoing connections to 0.0.0.0 rejected with EINVAL.

Even BSD/OS, under which qmail including 1.03 was developed, 0.0.0.0
is the localhost. It is so on every other OS. You are describing
something that OpenBSD does different from the rest of the world.

Greetz, Peter.