--On Thursday, May 08, 2003 11:00:18 -0400 Andrew Sullivan
<andrew@libertyrms.info> wrote:
> On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 04:11:01PM -0500, Larry Rosenman wrote:
>> a paranoid lookup: name->ip->name and make sure it's sane.
>> (My abuse/security/paranoid hat).
>
> If you're being paranoid, why use hostnames at all?
My point. But, if we are going to allow hostnames, we ought to make
sure the userbase (and us) understand the holes.
LER
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