Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 10:44:50 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> To: anderson@centtech.com Cc: Andrew Barros <abarros@tjhsst.edu>, "lists@mail.ru" <lists@mail.ru>, freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: reverse or not Message-ID: <65662.989052290@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 04 May 2001 08:17:00 EST." <3AF2ABCC.B5776288@centtech.com>
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On Fri, 04 May 2001 08:17:00 EST, Eric Anderson wrote: > I think if you have (in your /etc/host.conf) bind listed before hosts > (meaning it will ask the dns server before looking at the hosts file), > it would delay if the dns server doesn't have a reverse entry for > 127.0.0.1 [...] From a security perspective, I'm pretty sure that hosts should NEVER rely on any external source for resolution on the loopback network. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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