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Re: What makes Yahoo! a good merger candidate?
From: Paul Schmehl <pauls () utdallas edu>
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 10:44:10 -0600
--On Wednesday, February 06, 2008 11:58:31 +0100 Vincent van Scherpenseel <mailinglists () syn-ack org> wrote:
So, what do you do when you want to report something like this? In fact I'm doing them a favor by reporting but all I got is this lousy response. I'll have to think twice about reporting something like this next time... Does anyone know an Yahoo! security contact that actually does his job?
You do this the old fashioned way. # dig -t MX yahoo.com ; <<>> DiG 9.3.3 <<>> -t MX yahoo.com ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 10018 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 7, AUTHORITY: 7, ADDITIONAL: 14 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;yahoo.com. IN MX ;; ANSWER SECTION: yahoo.com. 1058 IN MX 1 g.mx.mail.yahoo.com. yahoo.com. 1058 IN MX 1 a.mx.mail.yahoo.com. yahoo.com. 1058 IN MX 1 b.mx.mail.yahoo.com. yahoo.com. 1058 IN MX 1 c.mx.mail.yahoo.com. yahoo.com. 1058 IN MX 1 d.mx.mail.yahoo.com. yahoo.com. 1058 IN MX 1 e.mx.mail.yahoo.com. yahoo.com. 1058 IN MX 1 f.mx.mail.yahoo.com. # telnet f.mx.mail.yahoo.com 25 Trying 209.191.88.247... Connected to f.mx.mail.yahoo.com. Escape character is '^]'. 220 mta378.mail.mud.yahoo.com ESMTP YSmtp service ready EHLO hostname.utdallas.edu 250-mta378.mail.mud.yahoo.com 250-8BITMIME 250-SIZE 31981568 250 PIPELINING MAIL FROM: testing () utdallas edu 501 Syntax error in parameters or arguments MAIL FROM: <testing () utdallas edu> 250 sender <testing () utdallas edu> ok RCPT TO: abuse () yahoo com 501 Syntax error in parameters or arguments RCPT TO: <abuse () yahoo com> 250 recipient <abuse () yahoo com> ok RCPT TO: <security () yahoo com> 250 recipient <security () yahoo com> ok RCPT TO: <support () yahoo com> 250 recipient <support () yahoo com> ok RCPT TO: <mail-abuse () yahoo com> 250 recipient <mail-abuse () yahoo com> ok quit 221 mta378.mail.mud.yahoo.com Connection closed by foreign host. Pick your poison. -- Paul Schmehl (pauls () utdallas edu) Senior Information Security Analyst The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
Current thread:
- What makes Yahoo! a good merger candidate? Vincent van Scherpenseel (Feb 06)
- Re: What makes Yahoo! a good merger candidate? Ferdinand Klinzer (Feb 06)
- Re: What makes Yahoo! a good merger candidate? Paul Schmehl (Feb 06)
- Re: What makes Yahoo! a good merger candidate? Valdis . Kletnieks (Feb 06)
- Re: What makes Yahoo! a good merger candidate? Harry Hoffman (Feb 06)
- Re: What makes Yahoo! a good merger candidate? Paul Schmehl (Feb 06)
- Re: What makes Yahoo! a good merger candidate? worried security (Feb 06)
- Re: What makes Yahoo! a good merger candidate? Harry Hoffman (Feb 06)
- Re: What makes Yahoo! a good merger candidate? Tonnerre Lombard (Feb 06)
- Re: What makes Yahoo! a good merger candidate? Christian Kujau (Feb 07)
- Re: What makes Yahoo! a good merger candidate? Paul Schmehl (Feb 07)
- Re: What makes Yahoo! a good merger candidate? Valdis . Kletnieks (Feb 06)
- Re: What makes Yahoo! a good merger candidate? Chris 'Chipper' Chiapusio (Feb 07)
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- Re: What makes Yahoo! a good merger candidate? admin (Feb 07)