Re: All.Net's security testing service

[KLASSEN () UVVM UVIC CA (Melvin Klassen)]

On Wed, 5 Apr 07:07:59 -0500 (EST) Paul Ferguson <paul () hawksbill sprintmrn com>
wrote:
> jdwilson () gold chem hawaii edu (NetSurfer) wrote:
> > Does it work in the case of a user dialing in for PPP,
> > and then connecting to ALL.NET ?
> No. It uses reverse domain mapping (gethostbyaddr)
> to direct its vulnerability testing.

If the user is running LINUX, and using PPP to connect,
and the IP-address assigned for the session is fully-registered in the DNS,
then it would be an effective test of the security on the user's machine.

If the user is running some lesser SLIP/PPP package, then what's the point?