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From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Subject: Re: bin/2584: eliminate possible passive attack against ping(1)
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The following reply was made to PR bin/2584; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, proff@iq.org
Cc:  Subject: Re: bin/2584: eliminate possible passive attack against ping(1)
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 08:35:25 -0700

 If you can't trust your resolver, then you are likely going to have a
 lot of problems all over the system.
 
 This attack requires there to be a bug in the resolver in order to even
 have a chance of succeeding.  If that were the case, better to fix the
 resolver than to fix all places in the source tree where it returns
 data.