Re: SMTP+SPF (was: [9fans] Re: new release?)

[Dave Lukes <davel@anvil.com>]

Thanks, Geoff.

I'm with you on buffer overflows.

named here died with an assertion failure
and PSInet obviously don't have sensible fallback arranged.
Yawn. YA job for the morning!

Thanks again,
        Dave.

On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 22:01, Geoff Collyer wrote:
> Dave, my dns is reporting a delegation loop for anvil.com, so I can't
> get mail to you.
>
> cpu Feb 26 13:52:01 delegation loop anvil.com
ns      pri2.dns.uk.psi.net ->  ns      f.root-servers.net from
154.32.107.30
> cpud Feb 26 13:52:03 delegation loop anvil.com
ns     wonderwall.anvil.com ->  ns     f.root-servers.net from
154.32.107.30
>
> You have my sympathies; sendmail and named should be taken out back
> and shot; that would eliminate most of the buffer overflows on (l)unix
> systems.  Buffer overflows are not inevitable, they are the product of
> careless programming.  Let me once again plug Dave Presotto's
> string(2) library:
>
>       string(2): avoiding buffer overruns in upas since 1984
>