Subject: Re: bin/12876: NetBSD's INET6 patches to Postfix break non-INET6 features!
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org, netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org>
From: Greg A. Woods <woods@weird.com>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 05/09/2001 01:11:54
[ On Wednesday, May 9, 2001 at 13:05:21 (+0900), itojun@iijlab.net wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: bin/12876: NetBSD's INET6 patches to Postfix break non-INET6 features! 
>
> 	go look at domainname(1) and bin/domainname/domainname.c.

Those comments are based on are false assumptions.  The correct
definition is in sethostname(3) and setdomainname(3).  There's nothing
whatsoever inside the kernel that uses either the hostname or the
domainname values for anything -- they are merely secure ways of storing
a pair of strings somewhere other than in the filesystem.

Any host can use them for DNS, NIS, UUCP, SMTP, Kerberos, whatever.

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