From owner-freebsd-isp Sat May 1 14:35:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mta1-rme.xtra.co.nz (mta.xtra.co.nz [203.96.92.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A855914C3A for ; Sat, 1 May 1999 14:35:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker ([210.55.152.128]) by mta1-rme.xtra.co.nz (InterMail v04.00.02.07 201-227-108) with SMTP id <19990501213728.LDMS6952170.mta1-rme@wocker>; Sun, 2 May 1999 09:37:28 +1200 From: "Dan Langille" Organization: The FreeBSD Diary To: Chuck Robey Date: Sun, 2 May 1999 09:35:31 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: configuring sendmail to be more anonymous. Reply-To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG References: In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Message-Id: <19990501213728.LDMS6952170.mta1-rme@wocker> Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 1 May 99, at 11:19, Chuck Robey wrote: > I'm curious, why would this be helpful? If they got to your site, they > have your IP number, and if they have your IP number, they can use DNS to > get your site name. Why stop sendmail from sending that out? > > I'm not being fascetious, I'm not a security whiz, and I'm honestly > curious. Perhaps they don't want to advertise which version of sendmail they are using? -- Dan Langille - DVL Software Limited The FreeBSD Diary - http://www.FreeBSDDiary.org/freebsd/ NZ FreeBSD User Group - http://www.nzfug.nz.freebsd.org/ The Racing System - http://www.racingsystem.com/racingsystem.htm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message