From owner-freebsd-security Thu Mar 15 14:16:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57B4237B719 for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2001 14:16:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA62454; Thu, 15 Mar 2001 23:16:26 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Cc: Adam Laurie , Ronan Lucio , security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Port 113 References: <006b01c0ad38$39eed0a0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> <099801c0ad7c$75b63800$2aa8a8c0@melim.com.br> <15025.5630.472269.543769@nomad.yogotech.com> <3AB1261F.23B8BE75@algroup.co.uk> <15025.10176.676792.32675@nomad.yogotech.com> <15025.15908.270320.373266@nomad.yogotech.com> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 15 Mar 2001 23:16:25 +0100 In-Reply-To: Nate Williams's message of "Thu, 15 Mar 2001 15:11:48 -0700 (MST)" Message-ID: Lines: 11 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Nate Williams writes: > Hmm, I remember a long time ago where it was said (urban legend) that > even sending RST's confused older version of mail servers. Huh? Sending an RST results in connect() returning ECONNREFUSED, just like it would if there were no firewall and no identd. Any mail server that can't handle ECONNREFUSED is broken beyond belief. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message