Re: popularity contest and queso
On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 12:24:47PM -0500, Jacob Kuntz wrote:
> i just recieved a queso fingerprint packet from master.debian.org. this
> corrisponded with me flushing my sendmail queue, which contained one
> message: apenwarr-survey@debian.org.
>
> i'm not mad or anything, but it would be nice to have seen a notice that you
> will be doing this. wouldn't it be more kosher to use a call to uname in the
> crontab?
My experience is that scan detectors are far too sensitive for their own good.
I am willing to bet this was just the normal connection to identd that
happens 90% of the time you send mail to a remote host anyway.
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Daniel Jacobowitz Debian GNU/Linux Developer
Monta Vista Software Debian Security Team
"I am croutons!"
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