[Mailman-Users] Slow delivery
Brad Knowles
brad at shub-internet.org
Fri Mar 9 08:04:23 CET 2007
At 10:16 PM -0800 3/8/07, Herman Privyhum wrote:
> http://xrl.us/u8pf (Link to www.exim.org)
So Phil says that he runs a trustworthy IDENT server on his box.
Fine. But plenty of spammers, phishers, and other nefarious types
out there will try to use IDENT as another vector to exploit for use
in breaking into your system, or for tricking you into believing
whatever lies they want you to believe.
Unfortunately, there isn't a trustworthy system to tell you which
sites run trustworthy IDENT servers. So, you've got to decide what
the relative risks and values are.
Moreover, damn few sites run multiuser systems like that anymore.
With NAT, you could hide hundreds or millions of machines behind a
single IP address, and IDENT to the NAT/firewall box would be pretty
meaningless.
Sorry. IDENT was useful fifteen or twenty years ago, but there are
far too many holes in that technique these days.
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