From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 18 16:54:25 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA00273 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 18 Nov 1996 16:54:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from scruz.net (nic.scruz.net [165.227.1.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA00211 for ; Mon, 18 Nov 1996 16:54:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from osprey.grizzly.com by scruz.net (8.7.3/1.34) id QAA25695; Mon, 18 Nov 1996 16:53:57 -0800 (PST) Received: (from markd@localhost) by osprey.grizzly.com (8.7.6/8.7.3) id QAA02466; Mon, 18 Nov 1996 16:54:34 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 16:54:34 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199611190054.QAA02466@osprey.grizzly.com> From: Mark Diekhans To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de CC: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <199611182333.AAA02854@uriah.heep.sax.de> (message from J Wunsch on Tue, 19 Nov 1996 00:33:51 +0100 (MET)) Subject: Re: BoS: Exploit for sendmail smtpd bug (ver. 8.7-8.8.2). Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >As Mark Diekhans wrote: > >> I disabled the use of DNS by sendmail by adding the file /etc/service.switch >> containing the line: >> >> hosts files > >You're sure you don't confuse FreeBSD and Solaris here? ;-) I have made a lot of mistakes in my life, but running Solaris isn't one of them: osprey-26>uname -a FreeBSD osprey.grizzly.com 2.2-961014-SNAP FreeBSD 2.2-961014-SNAP #0: Tue Oct 22 19:17:50 PDT 1996 root@:/usr/src/sys/compile/OSPREY i386 osprey-27>strings /usr/sbin/sendmail|fgrep service.switch /etc/service.switch