RE: [cobalt-users] Remote DNS/MX Records <Security>

["Rodolfo J. Paiz \(E-mail\)" <rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I'm curious if anyone knows of any outright problems in
> allowing users to control their own DNS/MX records while
> hosting their domain's on your systems?

They may not know how to manage it properly, and may screw something up,
and may blame you for it or somehow imply that it's related to your
quality of service. That's the biggest problem I see.

Other than that, *how* they go about changing their records, which
implies accessing your server, is the only real security risk I see.

I've been looking at Webmin (www.webmin.com), Plesk (www.plesk.com) and
Volution (www.caldera.com) for doing this on non-Cobalt systems. And it
is my understanding that the RaQ allows this as well. Conclusion, even
if tentative: if there were any major downsides to this (other than the
one I mentioned above) we would have heard about it by now.

A guess as usual, but reasonable for once.

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Rodolfo J. Paiz
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