[258] in Zephyr_Comments
Passing host info through?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Tue May 16 20:49:22 1989
Date: Tue, 16 May 89 20:49:10 EDT
From: Jonathan I. Kamens <jik@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: zephyr-comments@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Currently, it is possible for zephyr messages to be sent with a
hostname that is not really the hostname from which the message really
originates.
This is possible because the hostname which the zephyr server sends to
the client is the hostname included in the zephyr header sent from the
sender of the message to the server.
I propose that rather than the zephyr server send to the message
recipient(s) the hostname from the zephyr header it receives, it
should figure out the hostname from the network packet and use that as
the hostname to send to the recipients of the message.
I do not think this would impose a large additional overhead cost on
the servers.
Has this been considered?
jik
