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[Julian Field]

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Thanks for the correction. I based my last post on the contents of the bug
report in the SA wiki.
I must admit I wasn't sure they were right, but I hadn't tested it out myself.

At 13:00 03/10/2004, you wrote:
>NOT TRUE!!!  Per my note of last night, once you get init.pre in
>the right place and get SURBL working, then Sys::Hostname::Long
>will screw up your hostname every time SA finds a message that matches
>the SURBL criteria.  Boom, your hostname gets changed.  I confirmed
>this last night, both in MS debug mode and in regular mode.
>
>If you are on a Solaris box using Kerberos (as I am), then the
>Sys::Hostname::Long bug is really nasty.  The hostname changes, the
>Kerberos key table lookup fails, and then nobody can login to the
>box.

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