Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 21:40:01 -0800 (PST) From: John-Mark Gurney <jmg@nike.efn.org> To: freebsd-bugs Subject: bin/706 .rhosts and unqualified hostnames Message-ID: <199702110540.VAA14256@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/706; it has been noted by GNATS. From: John-Mark Gurney <jmg@nike.efn.org> To: kieber@sax.sax.de, freebsd-gnats-submit@freefall.FreeBSD.org Cc: Subject: bin/706 .rhosts and unqualified hostnames Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 21:31:45 -0800 (PST) ok... this problem still exists... but isn't it A Bad Thing (tm) to be trusting "outside" dns servers for those unqualified hostnames? because the root server could possibly be compromised or redirected to someone else's machine? should we possibly add a comment to hosts.equiv(5) that you shouldn't use unqualified dns entries for hostname? it's fine if you list the unqualified entries in something like /etc/hosts and put it to check hosts before going to dns... comments? John-Mark gurney_j@efn.org http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ Modem/FAX: (541) 683-6954 (FreeBSD Box) Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD (unix)
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