[Bug 497151] [NEW] /etc/nullmailer/remotes file contains string "mail." by default causing incessant DNS requests that fail.

[Revan Benade]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: nullmailer

I have cron jobs which produced output. Nullmailer was trying to mail
the ouput, but because the /etc/nullmailer/remotes file had, by default,
only the string "mail." in it, it kept send out thousands of DNS
requests to resolve "mail." which obviously is not a valid address. I
guess the bug is that the remotes file should probably be empty by
default.

This generated lots of traffic and cost me at least 950mb of bandwidth
until I discovered what was going on.

I trust apport has already captured all the package version detail. I
have Ubuntu 9.10 64-bit.

Thank for all the effort!

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Dec 15 22:44:52 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: nullmailer 1:1.04-1.1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_ZA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-16.53-generic
SourcePackage: nullmailer
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-16-generic x86_64

** Affects: nullmailer (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug

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/etc/nullmailer/remotes file contains string "mail." by default causing incessant DNS requests that fail.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/497151
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