[Devel] NEW OPTION: "auto_aliases" core parameter

Bogdan-Andrei Iancu bogdan at voice-system.ro
Thu Jan 11 15:07:45 CET 2007


Klaus Darilion wrote:

> 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? 


yes, they are. See 
http://openser.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/core-cookbook:devel#auto_aliases

regards,
bogdan

> 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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