Re: smtp proxy- yes or no?

From: Paul Robertson (no email)
Date: Wed Jan 02 2002 - 09:15:00 EST


On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 08:43:55AM -0500, Paul D. Robertson wrote:
>
> > Make sure you're keeping the Linux machine up to date- things like the
> > recent glibc patch for glob() are important. Also ensure that you're
>
> That means: Use Debian, cause updates on all other distros stink. Yes,
> I tried.

I updated my RH 7.2-based laptop without any issues.

>
> > using local filtering on that box to ensure that nothing but Postfix and
> > it's necessary DNS queries are available to the world.
>
> Maybe run a local caching dns.

Always (for performance reasons)- however it's important to ensure that
the DNS isn't exploitable- after WU-FTP, BIND is pretty high on the list of
*nix exploit vectors if not next (excluding RPC stuff, which tends to be
higher for Sun than others.)

Paul
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