Re: Outpost Bug? Same rules keep being re-applied for apps!

From: Dr. Bob (rck@houston.rr.com)
Date: 12/27/01 

From: rck@houston.rr.com (Dr. Bob)
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 07:30:40 GMT

On Thu, 27 Dec 2001 04:49:15 +0100, Rüdiger <ghostghostghost@gmx.de>
wrote:

>>The fix is to use wildcards in the IP address.

>Im sorry, this doesnt solve the problem.
>Its the same problem like your mailserver with different ips. If youre
>lucky the ips dont differ a lot and lie in a range you get with
>wildcards, but the basic problem isnt fixed.
>A way would be excluding names or ips from the dns plugin, or, as I
>already suggested, disabling the dns cache altogether.
>Theoretically this should force Outpost to resolve the ip everytime
>and vice versa. This is simply a basic weakness of a DNS cache.

>At least thats my understanding of the situation.

Hmm... I am using only the wildcard approach with my ISP, which is RR.
It works fine. RR has multiple news servers so I am getting different
IP addresses.

Have you updated OP to the latest version? And are you using Pro?

Dr. Bob

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