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



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?

It is, but does that apply to security?

I agree with Craig. Bad DNS (disagreement between A and PTR records)
suggests that somebody is up to no good, so why not drop them?


Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>



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