On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Tina Bird wrote: > From: Tom <TheTomat_private> > the destination buffer (child_buf) ist 128 bytes big and bind (bind 4 on > openbsd 2.8 does) limits the size of the hostname to 64 bytes. even > MAXHOSTNAMELEN on Linux (and other Unix like systems) is just 64 bytes. > so i think there is no real danger by this _possible_ buffer overflow. What if the reverse lookup is not answered by a BIND but by my own concoction which does respond with larger hostnames ? There seems an opportunity for problems there (could be interesting to see how your standard host-based resolver libraries handle this) Regards, Tycho -- Tycho Fruru tycho.fruruat_private "Prediction is extremely difficult. Especially about the future." - Niels Bohr --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: loganalysis-unsubscribeat_private For additional commands, e-mail: loganalysis-helpat_private
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