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David Leangen commented on JAMES-3219:
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I am having trouble understanding autodiscover:
{quote}*autodiscover*true or false - If you use autodiscover and add DNS
servers manually a combination of all the DNS servers will be used If
autodiscover is true, James will attempt to autodiscover the DNS servers
configured on your underlying system. Currently, this works if the OS has a
unix-like /etc/resolv.xml, or the system is Windows based with ipconfig or
winipcfg. Change autodiscover to false if you would like to turn off
autodiscovery and set the DNS servers manually in the servers section
{quote}
Is my understanding correct?
Setting to "true" means that James will try to use the host's dns resolver. For
instance, on a unix-type system, it will refer to /etc/resolv.conf (I assume
.conf and not .xml???). Is there any test or more detailed docs that show
exactly what happens in this scenario??
Setting to "false" means that James will simply use the list of DNS servers
provided. But in what order? Does it start at the top and keep moving down the
list until it successfully resolves?
It seems to me that "false" is simpler, and should be the default (which it is).
What would be the reason / benefit of setting to true? Why does this "feature"
even exist??
> Clarify DNS configuration
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> Key: JAMES-3219
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JAMES-3219
> Project: James Server
> Issue Type: Sub-task
> Reporter: David Leangen
> Priority: Major
>
> I would like to provide a little more detailed documentation for the DNS
> service, since users are required to configure this service (or use the
> default config) in order to run the James Local Server.
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