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Date:      Tue, 24 Jun 2003 07:34:28 -0700
From:      Bill Campbell <freebsd@celestial.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Re-building sendmail
Message-ID:  <20030624073427.A24180@barryg.mi.celestial.com>
In-Reply-To: <200306241140.52840.vsbenzi@weizmann.ac.il>; from vsbenzi@weizmann.ac.il on Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 11:40:52AM %2B0300
References:  <20030624025820.B483F71910@smtp.us2.messagingengine.com> <20030623200623.A6343@barryg.mi.celestial.com> <200306241140.52840.vsbenzi@weizmann.ac.il>

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On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 11:40:52AM +0300, Benzi Mizrahi wrote:
>ביום שלישי, 24 ביוני 2003, 06:06, Bill Campbell כתב:
....
>> When I first connected our systems to the Internet over ten years ago, the
>> CERT advisories on sendmail were about the size of a Manhattan phone book.
>> Over the years, it has proven one of the most common sources of security
>> holes on *ix systems, although BIND had recently been vying for the title.
>>
>
>So you might suggest replacing it DJB DNS???

We did that about two years ago when the BIND 8 holes were appearing hot
and heavy.  An added benefit of djbdns is the rbldns server which makes it
very easy to implement DNS based realtime blackhole lists.

Bill
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