Piete .
Brooks @
cl .
cam .
ac .
uk says:
> Well, as nobody else has leapt to BIND's defence I feel I had better so do.
>
> I have been using BIND generated shared libc's on my suns for years.
> They do double reverse lookups. The OPTIONS file says:
>
> SUNSECURITY (origin: rossc @
ucc .
su .
oz .
au)
> enable checking of PTR records in gethostbyaddr() to detect
> spoofing. Always on on suns as rlogin etc. depend on this.
>
> Are you saying that there is some other problem of which I am not aware ?
I was unaware that this option had been added. Obviously it solves the
problem in question.
Perry
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