The following reply was made to PR bin/31369; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Rhialto <rhialto@falu.nl>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: gnats-admin@NetBSD.org, netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: bin/31369: sendmail default configuration sensitive to DNS misconfigurations
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 13:56:31 +0200

 On Thu 22 Sep 2005 at 09:18:00 +0000, krille@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
 > FEATURE(`msp', `[localhost.]')dnl
 
 Generally, adding a period after a name is supposed to indicate that it
 is a FQDN, specifically so that it is not turned into
 localhost.myisp.de. I guess there is some problem in the name lookup
 though.
 
 I would guess that [127.0.0.1] is not used because of potential
 IPv6-only hosts.
 
 -Olaf.
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