From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 18 16:57:09 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA01050 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 18 Nov 1996 16:57:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA01038 for ; Mon, 18 Nov 1996 16:57:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with SMTP id QAA12234 for ; Mon, 18 Nov 1996 16:57:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id BAA02290; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 01:49:39 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id BAA19030; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 01:49:39 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.2/8.6.9) id AAA02832; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 00:32:06 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199611182332.AAA02832@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: BoS: Exploit for sendmail smtpd bug (ver. 8.7-8.8.2). To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 00:32:06 +0100 (MET) Cc: marcs@znep.com (Marc Slemko) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from Marc Slemko at "Nov 18, 96 08:34:12 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Marc Slemko wrote: > I am running TCP/IP, however only sometimes; ie. a dial on demand > connection. If it isn't recompiled, no matter how you configure it, > sendmail will try a DNS lookup for each bit of mail it receives, causing > the dial on demand link to come up. No. Use FEATURE(nodns) FEATURE(nocanonify) Of course, you could also try reading the FAQ ;-) 9.18. How do I use sendmail for mail delivery with UUCP? -- 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. ;-)