mirror defaults to True despite documentation being misleading #1390
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The mirror options' documentation states that it defaults to
off
.We've discovered (the hard way) that this only seems to be true for a subscriber.
This is further emphasized in the documentation in this table where only the
subscriber
hasmirror False
in theKey Option Settings
field.The reason why this has been noticed recently is because v3.00.57 of sr3 has been added to operational servers. The change in #1337 has broken some of our configurations.
We had sarra/sender configs that had
mirror False
set after/reject statements in a configuration. So, because the masks' now get applied correctly and mirror defaults to True in sarra/senders, this caused unintended behaviours.i.e.
Options
False
for all configs, but that would require an audit of all of our current sr3 configs and would likely be a lot of work.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: