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Re: Q on external router
From: Roger Marquis <marquis () roble com>
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 07:25:44 -0700 (PDT)
On Thu, 23 Apr 1998 tqbf () secnet com wrote:
confidence in Sendmail, to the point where I'd be willing to consider deploying VMailer in circumstances where Sendmail's lack of reliability is prohibitive.
We hear about sendmail's lack of reliability but I am not aware of any security problems since version 8.8.5, that's 4 releases ago. If you're going to discount software because it had bugs in a previous release then you'd have to pass on 99% of the firewall technology available today. The same logic should be applied to DMZ switches. Has anyone ever documented a break-in due to a leaking switch? Even if you could break-in to a DMZ machine, and even if you could use that machine to send a large number of bogus arps, and even if the switch would then start passing any pack to all ports, and if you could then snoop that traffic... seems very unlikely. Roger Marquis Roble Systems Consulting http://www.roble.com/consulting
Current thread:
- Re: Q on external router, (continued)
- Re: Q on external router Eric Vyncke (Apr 24)
- Re: Q on external router tqbf (Apr 24)
- RE: Q on external router Andrew J. Luca (Apr 24)
- Re: Q on external router Adam Shostack (Apr 23)
- Re: Q on external router Marcus J. Ranum (Apr 23)
- Re: Q on external router tqbf (Apr 23)
- Re: Q on external router Paul D. Robertson (Apr 24)
- Re: Q on external router Eric Vyncke (Apr 24)
- Re: Q on external router tqbf (Apr 24)
- Re: Q on external router darrenr (Apr 24)
- Re: Q on external router Roger Marquis (Apr 24)
- Re: Q on external router tqbf (Apr 25)
- Re: Q on external router Adam Shostack (Apr 26)
- Re: switched DMZ (was Q on external router) Roel JT Jonkman (Apr 23)
- Re: Q on external router Bennett Todd (Apr 23)