From owner-freebsd-security Mon May 7 9:55:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from nsmail.corp.globalstar.com (gibraltar.globalstar.com [207.88.248.142]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F82437B50C for ; Mon, 7 May 2001 09:55:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from crist.clark@globalstar.com) Received: from globalstar.com ([207.88.153.184]) by nsmail.corp.globalstar.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id GCZ5MF00.C2F; Mon, 7 May 2001 09:54:15 -0700 Message-ID: <3AF6D34C.AE6A479F@globalstar.com> Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 09:54:36 -0700 From: "Crist Clark" Organization: Globalstar LP X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: anderson@centtech.com, Andrew Barros , "lists@mail.ru" , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: reverse or not References: <65662.989052290@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > 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. So everyone MUST run a DNS server on localhost? That does not sound too secure either. -- Crist J. Clark Network Security Engineer crist.clark@globalstar.com Globalstar, L.P. (408) 933-4387 FAX: (408) 933-4926 The information contained in this e-mail message is confidential, intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above. If the reader of this e-mail is not the intended recipient, or the employee or agent responsible to deliver it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please contact postmaster@globalstar.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message