Thats your mailer laughing at someones pitiful attempt to knock it over.
Sendmail does load protection. Anyone with effectively equivalent or better
bandwidth can always DoS a system. Ask yahoo.
> In this company, they hired a "CIO" who thinks that no computers
> should have any local storage or boot capability. They must all
> boot from some secure (M$) file-server. They will not be allowed
> to have local disks and, horrors -- of course no floppy drives or
> CD-ROMS.
Good policy (well maybe not the choice of fileserver OS) in many
environments. How do you think McDonalds unix based tills run 8) - no
floppy believe me.
> He doesn't care that we are in the business of making software-driven
> machines so we require access to the guts of computers and their
> operating systems.
Smart people migrate, company or division goes out of business, another large
company eventually buys small company that the people who left formed
repeat cycle.
> So, if it is at all possible to help improve its security without
> hurting its performance very much, it's really a matter of life-or-
> death for Linux. Otherwise "they" will get us.
I think not. Look at the fate of companies whose bosses adopted X.400
because TCP/IP was "some crazy hacker thing" "not industry strength" "had no
telco support" "couldnt provide the needed QoS" ...
Alan
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