[IRCServices] Email forwarding

[Andrew Kempe]

What part of this is open to resource attacks?

Were the domains resolving?

Andrew

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Church" <achurch at achurch.org>
To: <ircservices at ircservices.za.net>
Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2001 1:05 PM
Subject: RE: [IRCServices] Email forwarding


> >I got very close to being able to send passwords to an email address. I
was
> >not at all keen on having to handle more sockets so I was basically doing
> >the following:
> >
> >- Dumping the password to a file. The file also contained the email
address
> >to which to send the email.
> >- Run a cron that basically used "mail" to send the mail off.
>
>      As with nslookup, this is seriously asking for trouble, in terms of
> resource exhaustion attacks; I recommend against doing this.  I am looking
> at adding the various mail features in 5.0.
>
>      BTW, {ftp,www}.ircservices.za.net aren't responding.
>
>   --Andrew Church
>     achurch at achurch.org | New address - please note.
>     http://achurch.org/ | $B%a!<%k%"%I%l%9$,JQ$o$j$^$7$?!#(B
>
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