From owner-freebsd-security Thu Nov 18 8:29: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from faith.cs.utah.edu (faith.cs.utah.edu [155.99.198.108]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 408D715458 for ; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 08:29:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from danderse@faith.cs.utah.edu) Received: (from danderse@localhost) by faith.cs.utah.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA00586; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 09:28:51 -0700 (MST) From: David G Andersen Message-Id: <199911181628.JAA00586@faith.cs.utah.edu> Subject: Re: [Systalk] localhost.org (fwd) To: matt@BabCom.ORG (matt) Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 09:28:51 -0700 (MST) Cc: bsd@a.servers.aozilla.com, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "matt" at Nov 18, 99 11:22:20 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I'm with matt on this. You should name your machine "something.your.domain", and then CNAME and MX "domain.com" to "something.your.domain". Technically, your machine doesn't _have_ a hostname! :) ... or its domain name is ".org". ... the software is behaving properly. The configuration is wrong. -Dave Lo and behold, matt once said: > > On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Mr. K. wrote: > [...] > : so, since my hostname is inbox.org, the default domain is org. it seems > : very unlikely that anyone would ever want this for a two part hostname. > : shouldn't this be disabled as a default for those names (but still work > : for those who explicitly add it)? > > Forgive me if I'm just being completely daft, but consider this; > > I have domain.com pointing to a machine, which is named s01.domain.com, > is my domain name domain.com or .com ? Now, .org would be the TLD (top > level domain), but inbox.com would be your domain name, a hostname would > be something.inbox.com. Though I will admit that the wording of the > resolv.conf man page could stand to be more clear. Having your domain > set like this to .org is a dangerous thing. As you saw with localhost.org. > > Matt > -- > "If the primates that we came from had known that someday politicians > would come out of the...the gene pool, they'd a stayed up in the trees > and written evolution off as a bad idea. Hell, I always thought the > opposable thumb was overrated." > -Sheridan, "A Distant Star" > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message > -- work: dga@lcs.mit.edu me: dga@pobox.com MIT Laboratory for Computer Science http://www.angio.net/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message