Hey Sam - are you implying he should add teh capability and default for a "MAX_DOT_DEPTH" or something similar to prevent this?
And assuming he does, are you willing to include? Then he knows whether or not to bother fixing - personally it's not something I can see myself having a use for, but I wasn't sure how to take your answer... m/ -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Sam Varshavchik Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 3:17 PM To: Courier Subject: [courier-users] Re: Wildcard DNS + Courier? (fix patch included) Jeff Potter writes: > This change allows for users to add ".domain.com" entries in the > hosteddomains file. Given a hostname "some.funky.domain.com", this > patch adds checks for ".funky.domain.com", ".domain.com", and ".com", > in that order. Are you willing to add this into the main branch? There's a problem with this approach. Someone specifying a recipient address of "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", with sufficient intensity, can cause a DDOS attack. Although DB lookups are relatively fast, this is still something that cannot be ignored. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
