full-disclosure - Re: CORE-2003-0403: Axis Network Camera HTTP Authentication Bypass

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From: smcmahon at eiv.com (Shawn McMahon)
Subject: Re: CORE-2003-0403: Axis Network Camera HTTP Authentication Bypass

On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 03:36:52PM -0500, Brent J. Nordquist said:
> 
> LOL, oops.  Someone pointed out to me a while back that RFC 2606 reserves 
> "example.com" "example.org" and "example.net" for this kind of purpose.

Even barring such considerations as DNS poisoning, wags at ICANN setting
up SMTP servers, etc., it still doesn't strike me as optimal to have
thousands of machines attempting constant SMTP connections to
192.0.34.166 just because an RFC mentioned it was possible.


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