On Wed, Aug 05, 1998 at 10:34:00AM +0100, Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Paul Mansfield wrote:
>
> > > When the daemon starts up, it does a forward lookup on the name
> > > and saves the IP address. When a connection happens, it
> > > compares the IP address.
> >
> > this is quite interesting. so if the IP address of a.complete.host.name
> > changes, then Exim won't notice. This could be a feature, or a bug?
>
> Indeed. It is a feature or a bug.
>
> > should Exim reload these addresses occasionally?
>
> How often is occasionally? I don't myself think this is a major issue,
> but others may wish to argue otherwise.
It may be overly complex but why not use the Time-To-Live value associated
with the address in the DNS? After the TTL expires, an address is not
guaranteed to be valid anyway, so that would be a good time to reload.
David
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