[jdev] spoofing "from" attributes

Richard Dobson richard at dobson-i.net
Tue Feb 22 04:10:10 CST 2005


> I know, but I don't understand why I can send messages to local users and 
> not to users of other servers. If this is evil it should be forbidden in 
> both cases, and, moreover, I don't understand the error message, 'service 
> unavailable' which is different from something like 'forbidden' or 
> 'malformed', which should be more appropriate.

Although the error is 'service unavailable' because the remote server has 
rejected your servers attempt to connect to it because you tried to send it 
a spoofed message, this is what is supposed to happen.

Richard





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