[PLUG] Sendmail Vulnerability

Paul Heinlein heinlein at attbi.com
Tue Mar 4 11:23:01 UTC 2003


On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Paul Lankow wrote:

> >   ping localhost.lankow.net
> >   host localhost.lankow.net
> 
> They come back with my outside IP rather than 127.0.0.1 Normally, it
> would come back and say 'localhost' I believe, and it's picking up
> 'lankow.net' for the Dj line of sendmail.cf - previous versions of
> Sendmail hasn't done that. Previous versions also didn't have the
> local-host-names file either, as I recall.

Does it help to add localhost.lankow.net to the existing localhost 
entry in /etc/hosts? (IOW, so localhost.lankow.net points to 
127.0.0.1.)

--Paul Heinlein <heinlein at attbi.com>





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