Re: Is this mail list dead?

[Luca Berra <bluca@comedia.it>]

On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 09:07:41PM -0800, Crispin Cowan wrote:
> How else would you (say) enforce that only the Duly Authorized Mailserver is
> the one listening to example.com:25 ?  If anyone can bind to port 25, then
> anyone can kick the authorized mail server over (go find some DoS) and start
> your own mail server.  Repeat as necessary for various other important
> services that bind to well-known ports <1024.
bah, there are a lot of services that start from port>1024 nowadays
i believe the < 1024 thing was for the benefit of things like
rlogin/rsh

L.
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