cvs commit: ports/sysutils/lsof Makefile

David O'Brien obrien at FreeBSD.org
Mon Feb 4 11:28:50 PST 2008


On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 10:28:53PM +0000, Wesley Shields wrote:
>   Modified files:
>     sysutils/lsof        Makefile 
>   Log:
>   Add MASTER_SITE_LOCAL since the primary distribution site rejects
>   connections without working reverse DNS.

This is a mistake.  ISPs that aren't providing reverse DNS should fix
their DNS.  It is mostly because of practices like lsof.itap.purdue.edu
that we have a well implemented reverse DNS entries within the Internet
community.  The issue was forced when ftp.uu.net (then the largest
distributor of centralized open source) required reverse DNS entries in
order to login.  Previous to that, most ISPs were too damned lazy (and in
competent) to Do The Right Thing(tm).


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