any requests

[Tony Finch]

Doug Barton <dougb at dougbarton.us> wrote:
> On 06/05/2013 11:33 AM, Tony Finch wrote:
> > I believe the ANY hack on mail servers was a Sendmailism 20ish years ago.
>
> s/Send/q/

No, I meant Sendmail - see http://fanf.livejournal.com/122220.html

Sendmail at one time tried to use ANY for combined MX+A lookups, which
doesn't work. qmail uses ANY for CNAME lookups, which sort-of works, apart
from a number of bugs described on the page above.

Tony.
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