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Article #694Re: Can a user \"prod\" a remote host?
From: Jordan M. Hayes
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1986 16:39
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1986 16:39
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From: Rob Austein <SRA@XX.LCS.MIT.EDU> In theory SMTP provides a facility that could be used the way you describe, the TURN command. To use it you'd call up the host you wanted to prod, negotiate a TURN (at which point you turn into an SMTP "server" instead of an SMTP "user"), then get instant gratification as the foreign machine dumped all its mail out to you. Yes, but I think the main reason this has never been implemented is for security reasons ... I could find a machine that does a lot of queueing on a regular basis (ucbvax for one queues a lot, since the load is usually above the "safe" threshold for sendmail to run to completion) and telnet to port 25 on your machine and issue a TURN and I steal all the mail headed for that machine ... not _too_ cool ... /jordan
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbatt!ihnp4!qantel!lll-lcc!lll-crg!seismo!columbia!caip!brl-adm!brl-smoke!smoke!jordan@ucb-arpa.ARPA From: jordan@ucb-arpa.ARPA (Jordan M. Hayes) Newsgroups: net.mail.headers Subject: Re: Can a user \"prod\" a remote host? Message-ID: <4178@brl-smoke.ARPA> Date: Fri, 26-Sep-86 12:39:12 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-smok.4178 Posted: Fri Sep 26 12:39:12 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 30-Sep-86 19:24:52 EDT Sender: news@brl-smoke.ARPA Lines: 18