Re: ALL: PARANOID from /etc/hosts.deny Should be Commented by default

[Rahul Jain <rahul@rice.edu>]

On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 09:19:21AM -0700, Adam McKenna wrote:
> It's not our job to enforce this, especially when it causes interoperability
> problems.  "Be conservative in what you send, liberal in what you receive."
> That's the axiom, right?

Liberal in what you receive, IF you TRUST the person sending it!
How can you trust a person whose IP resolves to a host, but that host does not
resolve to the same IP?

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