[Devel] NEW OPTION: "auto_aliases" core parameter

Klaus Darilion klaus.mailinglists at pernau.at
Thu Jan 11 14:42:36 CET 2007


Bogdan-Andrei Iancu wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> I added a nee core parameter named "auto_aliases" - it controls if 
> aliases should be automatically discovered and added during fixing 
> listening sockets. Formally, this was done with no control over it (to 
> turn it off), which was a security risk (in my opinion) as the server 
> was using auto-discover aliases that were not configured.

Are these the reverse DNS lookups whose results were automatically used 
as alias? If yes, then this is a good idea.

regards
klaus



> 
> To maintain backward compatibility, the default value is "on";
> 
> Ex:
>     auto_aliases=no
>     or
>     auto_aliases=0
> 
> 
> regards,
> bogdan
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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