[55409] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Is it time to block all Microsoft protocols in the core?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barney Wolff)
Tue Jan 28 17:24:36 2003
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 17:22:10 -0500
From: Barney Wolff <barney@pit.databus.com>
To: Joe Abley <jabley@isc.org>
Cc: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <A0154384-330C-11D7-9DAE-00039312C852@isc.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 03:50:34AM +0545, Joe Abley wrote:
>
> On Wednesday, Jan 29, 2003, at 01:25 Asia/Katmandu, Joe Abley wrote:
>
> >On FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Darwin/Mac OS X (the only xterms I
> >happen to have open right now) this is not the case, and has not been
> >for some time. I presume, perhaps na?vely, that other operating
> >systems have done something similar.
>
> This is not right. Guess I was typing "man" in the wrong xterms.
>
> FreeBSD (4.x, 5.x) listens to the network by default (and can be
> persuaded not to with a "-s" flag). NetBSD (1.6) does the same.
You were right the first time, at least for FreeBSD. The "-s" flag
is applied by default - see /etc/defaults/rc.conf . Not quite as
idiot-proof as a compiled-in default, but way better than defaulting
to listening.
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