From owner-freebsd-security Tue May 8 10:24:44 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 560D637B422 for ; Tue, 8 May 2001 10:24:42 -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 GD11OK00.U2R; Tue, 8 May 2001 10:24:20 -0700 Message-ID: <3AF82BD9.F474AFB6@globalstar.com> Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 10:24:41 -0700 From: "Crist Clark" Organization: Globalstar LP X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Garrett Wollman Cc: Sheldon Hearn , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: reverse or not References: <3AF6D34C.AE6A479F@globalstar.com> <98864.989254731@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> <200105081531.LAA62449@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Garrett Wollman wrote: > > < said: > > > 2) Hosts should have hostnames for the loopback network > > hardwired into /etc/hosts. > > Our policy here is just the opposite: hosts should not even have > `/etc/hosts' files, and should they by some twist of fate gain one, > the resolver should be configured to ignore it. Well, if you are talking about Athena, that computer environment is fairly "unique" to say the least. Kind of strange to have a pretty secure computing environment where every person on the campus knows the root password to every public workstation. (Unless things have changed.) It's an interesting security model. -- 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