Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 10:49:48 +0300 (MSK) From: "=?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?=" (Andrey A. Chernov) <ache@nagual.ru> To: marcs@znep.com (Marc Slemko) Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: BoS: Exploit for sendmail smtpd bug (ver. 8.7-8.8.2). Message-ID: <199611180749.KAA00591@nagual.ru> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.961117211243.223A-100000@alive.ampr.ab.ca> from "Marc Slemko" at "Nov 17, 96 09:18:29 pm"
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> Incorrect. Sendmail still attempts a lookup for something, I think it is > the local hostname, for each piece of mail it processes. Last I checked, > this could NOT be disabled without recompiling sendmail. Modifying your > config file or adding a service.switch file does not stop it. Of course you must use FEATURE(nocanonify) FEATURE(nodns) in addition to /etc/service.switch, I just not mention obvious things. > On Mon, 18 Nov 1996, [KOI8-R] Андрей Чернов wrote: > > > > Sendmail's support of UUCP isn't wonderful (mostly a problem of > > > getting DNS totally disabled). How well does qmail support UUCP? > > > > It is possible to totally disable DNS via > > > > /etc/service.switch: > > # To disable DNS search for sendmail > > hosts files -- Andrey A. Chernov <ache@nagual.ru> http://www.nagual.ru/~ache/
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