security hole? server masquerade

list Henrik Størner
Fri, 30 Nov 2007 22:33:27 +0100
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On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 05:05:44PM -0500, ye-fee liang wrote:

Doesn't the hobbit server check that the ip of the reporting server (serverb)
and reject it, since it does not match the ip address of servera?

Short answer: No.

Slightly longer answer: See the hobbitd(8) man-page, the "--status-senders" option.


Henrik