Re: solution time for www/smtp hole

William C Fenner (fenner@herman.cmf.nrl.navy.mil)
Fri, 13 Aug 1993 13:42:59 -0400


On Fri, 13 Aug 1993 13:22:25 -0400 (EDT) Charles Henrich wrote:
>The purpose is to stop attacks on systems. All the ports you've named are not
>widely used for their intended purpose, and as such dont present a problem
>(IMHO).

So since you don't run XFER, and none of your friends run XFER, it's a good
idea to leave open a possible security hole in the relationship between WWW
and XFER?

Bill