R utilities, addresses, etc.

[chowes () helix net (Charles Howes)]

On Wed, 19 Oct 1994 smb () research att com wrote:

> Well, some folks (like us) have put DNS routines into the shared libc,
> so that everything not statically linked uses the DNS without needing
> NIS.
>
> But that's not the real point.  The real point of this discussion is 
> that Sun has chosen (rightly, in my opinion) to put the cross-check
> into the libraries, rather than the applications.  Thus, Sun's rshd
> and rlogind *don't* do the check themselves.  If you replace the resolver
> routines with ones that don't do the cross-check, you've opened up a
> great gaping security hole.

On a pretty-close-to-related issue, why can't the r utitiles handle ip
addresses?  Seems to be a glaring omission.
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