fetchmail-friends
[Top] [All Lists]

Re: [fetchmail]Patch: don't exit at a DNS-error at startup

2001-06-21 09:36:00
Hi Henrique,

On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Rob MacGregor wrote:
I think the correct behavior should be to print out an errormessage
like
that and skip this host but poll the others.

I think you'll find this was patched in 5.8.2:

* Don't cough and die from failure to resolve a skipped host.  Resolves
  Debian bug #92530

It doesn't. See Debian bug #99197.

looks like my patch fixes this bug. I've looked and found no other dangerous
occurences of exit(PS_DNS) or the like in the source.

Would you please test it a bit and then submit it for the next version.

Regards,

Gerd