Configuring sendmail not to reveal internal hostnames

[Julian Field]

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Eek! You really don't need to (or want to) modify the source just for a
configuration setting. Maintenance nightmare :-(

Errol Neal wrote:

>Thanks everyone. I just decided to modify sendmail/conf.c.
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>Behalf Of Julian Field
>Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 11:44 AM
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: Re: Configuring sendmail not to reveal internal hostnames
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>Put this in your sendmail.mc file and rebuild the sendmail.cf file
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>MASQUERADE_AS(`ecs.soton.ac.uk')
>FEATURE(masquerade_envelope)
>FEATURE(allmasquerade)
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>Obviously you will want to change ecs.soton.ac.uk to your domain name.
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>Errol Neal wrote:
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>>Excuse me, I mean *not* to expose. Sorry
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
>>Behalf Of Errol Neal
>>Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 11:16 AM
>>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>>Subject: OT: Configuring sendmail not to reveal internal hostnames
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>>As the subject says, this is OT. I apologize.
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>>I'm searching for a means by which I can tell sendmail to expose the
>>host names of local computers on our network. The computers are named
>>after the users they are associated with so that reveals a lot to folks
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>>in the outside world. Anyone know of a means to disable this? I just
>>want to disable the reverse lookup.
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