[248] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: quiche developments
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
Tue Dec 7 00:14:50 1993
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 93 00:13:56 EST
From: tytso@MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
To: ghudson@MIT.EDU
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: ghudson@MIT.EDU's message of Mon, 6 Dec 93 23:46:54 EST,
<9312070446.AA13435@deathtongue.MIT.EDU>
From: ghudson@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 93 23:46:54 EST
Sal installed delete. It works. He installed hesiod and hesinfo. It
works. He installed from. It doesn't work, so he deinstalled it. He
installed dash. It works. We got Jonathan to make us a srvtab.
From should work, as long as you remove "hosts" from /etc/host.conf.
There's a bug in "from" and "movemail" where it takes the result of a
gethostbyname, and passes to krb_get_phost, which passes it to
gethostbyname again. This is not guaranteed to work, and while it does
work if you're talking to a DNS gethostbyname, it doesn't work if you're
talking to Linux's /etc/hosts gethostbyname(). I had to debug this when
Chris was trying to get mail to work on a Linux box in E40, and it
turned out to be this particular problem.
Mark knows about this bug and was going to fix it; I guess he hasn't
gotten around to fixing it yet.
- Ted
