Re: asterisks in smtp banner

2010-02-15 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* ram : > Can someone share a good reference that says that smtp-protocol-fixup > can be safely disabled without compromising the security. > > Apparently the Cisco guys themselves dont own up to their bug and they > say disabling anything is at "ones own risk". Of course ALL changes are "one

Re: asterisks in smtp banner

2010-02-15 Thread Vladimir Vassiliev
There are good explanations here: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.dcom.sys.cisco/browse_frm/thread/ee1c9bc0180cacad/8e679e9c420395dc?tvc=1&q=smtp%20fixup%20cisco%20sendmail -- Vladimir Vassiliev

Re: asterisks in smtp banner

2010-02-15 Thread Eero Volotinen
> Can someone share a  good reference that says that smtp-protocol-fixup > can be safely disabled without compromising the security. > > Apparently the Cisco guys themselves dont own up to their bug and they > say disabling anything is at "ones own risk". > > That is enough to get the boot from the

Re: asterisks in smtp banner

2010-02-15 Thread ram
On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 11:45 +0100, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > * Serge Fonville : > > Hi, > > > > I noticed with a couple of mail servers that the smtp greeting > > contains 220 followed by a lot of asterisks. > > CISCO PIX. > > > When I do a check using mxtoolbox I get "Warning - Reverse DNS doe

Re: asterisks in smtp banner

2010-02-15 Thread Serge Fonville
Thanks for the reply How do I assure that the normal text is displayed instead of the asterisks? >>> Well, ask the administrator of network to disable cisco smtp fixup? >>> Turn off the SMTP protocol fixup in the Pix. >> >> I also found that as a solution. >> Unfortunately there is no pi

Re: asterisks in smtp banner

2010-02-15 Thread Eero Volotinen
2010/2/15 Serge Fonville : > Thanks for the replies > >>> How do I assure that the normal text is displayed instead of the asterisks? >>> >> Well, ask the administrator of network to disable cisco smtp fixup? >> Turn off the SMTP protocol fixup in the Pix. > > I also found that as a solution. > Unf

Re: asterisks in smtp banner

2010-02-15 Thread Serge Fonville
Thanks for the replies >> How do I assure that the normal text is displayed instead of the asterisks? >> > Well, ask the administrator of network to disable cisco smtp fixup? > Turn off the SMTP protocol fixup in the Pix. I also found that as a solution. Unfortunately there is no pix in between.

Re: asterisks in smtp banner

2010-02-15 Thread Eero Volotinen
2010/2/15 Serge Fonville : > Hi, > > I noticed with a couple of mail servers that the smtp greeting > contains 220 followed by a lot of asterisks. > When I do a check using mxtoolbox I get "Warning - Reverse DNS does > not match SMTP Banner" > > How do I assure that the normal text is displayed ins

Re: asterisks in smtp banner

2010-02-15 Thread Devdas Bhagat
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 11:43:57AM +0100, Serge Fonville wrote: > > How do I assure that the normal text is displayed instead of the asterisks? > Turn off the SMTP protocol fixup in the Pix. Devdas Bhagat

Re: asterisks in smtp banner

2010-02-15 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Serge Fonville : > Hi, > > I noticed with a couple of mail servers that the smtp greeting > contains 220 followed by a lot of asterisks. CISCO PIX. > When I do a check using mxtoolbox I get "Warning - Reverse DNS does > not match SMTP Banner" > > How do I assure that the normal text is displa