On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Markus Stumpf wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 09:50:14AM -0700, Tom Jackson wrote:
> > Also note that a few recent messages were in error in suggesting -h flag
> > to tcpserver. The options I used are:
> >
> > -v -p -l 0 -H -R -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb
> >
> > But isn't the -p not correct here?
>
> If you use -p and DNS is broken you will get a lot of timeouts, as
> -p enforces a few more DNS lookups.
>
> And "-l 0" is also nonsense. This should be "-l localhostname" this is
> a NAME, not a number.
No, it is not nonsense. Read the page you cited below yourself.
But -H and -p do seem contradictory.
If DNS is "broken", for whatever reason, I use -H -R -l 0
> See
> http://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp/tcpserver.html
>
> \Maex
>
