From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 5 11:53:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net (hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0427637B409; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 11:53:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mindspring.com (dialup-209.247.139.244.Dial1.SanJose1.Level3.net [209.247.139.244]) by hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA07748; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 11:53:26 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3B9674D1.2AB00B6D@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2001 11:54:09 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Reply-To: tlambert2@mindspring.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Igor Podlesny Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: auto relaying for subdomains -- why? References: <16615694707.20010905210719@morning.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Igor Podlesny wrote: > I noticed that some mailers (sendmail, postfix) in case they allow > relaying for somedomain.zone also allow relaying for > subdomain-of.somedomain.zone. > > I can accept this as reasonable behavior but would like to know how to > deny it! :) Also I wish to know what was the actual idea behind this? Sendmail does _not_ do this by default; you have to specifically allow it by adding entries to your M4 file from which you build your sendmail.cf. If I had to guess, I'd guess that you enabled the domain via a sendmail.cw file, rather than a virtusertable, or by setting yourself up as a promiscuous relay. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message