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Re: telnet/ftp/rlogin/rsh not working between Linux machines. (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Sanders)
Sun Aug 20 11:47:28 1995
To: submit-linux-dev-net@ratatosk.yggdrasil.com
From: Robert Sanders <rsanders@mindspring.com>
Date: 20 Aug 1995 03:18:40 -0400
In-Reply-To: urlichs@smurf.noris.de's message of 19 Aug 1995 12:49:33 +0200
On 19 Aug 1995 12:49:33 +0200, urlichs@smurf.noris.de (Matthias Urlichs) said:
> Besides, accepting and then immediately throwing away a connection is
> against quite a few RFCs. SMTP, FTP, NNTP, I can probably dig out a few
> others. :-/ Unless you configure tcpd to reject callers correctly,
> IMHO you shouldn't use it in the first place.
Which is the greater harm: a rude system which violates RFCs for
systems it isn't supposed to offer services to anyway, or having your
totally unprotected system broken into? If those are the only
choices, I'd certainly choose the former.
Regards,
-- Robert
