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Date:      Tue, 19 Nov 1996 00:36:10 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Subject:   Re: BoS: Exploit for sendmail smtpd bug (ver. 8.7-8.8.2).
Message-ID:  <199611182336.AAA02882@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <v01540b00aeb67a4ec24e@[194.32.164.2]> from Bob Bishop at "Nov 18, 96 08:42:27 pm"

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As Bob Bishop wrote:

> Run a caching-only nameserver locally?

I'm doing this, but sendmail would still try to resolve all names
using DNS, thus causing large timeouts.  You really need `nocanonify'
for it, otherwise it will try to canonify each and any mail addressee.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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