From owner-freebsd-security  Sun Nov 17 18:39:49 1996
Return-Path: owner-security
Received: (from root@localhost)
          by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA02669
          for security-outgoing; Sun, 17 Nov 1996 18:39:49 -0800 (PST)
Received: from sovcom.kiae.su (sovcom.kiae.su [193.125.152.1])
          by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA02664
          for <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.org>; Sun, 17 Nov 1996 18:39:45 -0800 (PST)
Received: by sovcom.kiae.su id AA14597
  (5.65.kiae-1 ); Mon, 18 Nov 1996 05:26:18 +0300
Received: by sovcom.KIAE.su (UUMAIL/2.0); Mon, 18 Nov 96 05:26:17 +0300
Received: (from ache@localhost) by nagual.ru (8.8.2/8.8.2) id FAA01413; Mon, 18 Nov 1996 05:25:20 +0300 (MSK)
Message-Id: <199611180225.FAA01413@nagual.ru>
Subject: Re: BoS: Exploit for sendmail smtpd bug (ver. 8.7-8.8.2).
In-Reply-To: <199611180134.RAA14418@salsa.gv.ssi1.com> from "Don Lewis" at "Nov 17, 96 05:34:25 pm"
To: Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com (Don Lewis)
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 05:25:19 +0300 (MSK)
Cc: adam@homeport.org, pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co,
        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.org
From: "=?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?=" (Andrey A. Chernov) <ache@nagual.ru>
Organization: self
X-Class: Fast
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)]
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Sender: owner-security@FreeBSD.org
X-Loop: FreeBSD.org
Precedence: bulk

> Sendmail's support of UUCP isn't wonderful (mostly a problem of
> getting DNS totally disabled).  How well does qmail support UUCP?

It is possible to totally disable DNS via

/etc/service.switch:
# To disable DNS search for sendmail
hosts files


-- 
Andrey A. Chernov
<ache@nagual.ru>
http://www.nagual.ru/~ache/