From owner-freebsd-bugs Fri Oct 29 15:14:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82F4C150E3 for ; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:14:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id AAA06803; Sat, 30 Oct 1999 00:13:00 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Cc: "Ronald F. Guilmette" , freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Some fixes for some non-features of the /etc/rc.firewall script In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 29 Oct 1999 16:07:59 MDT." <199910292207.QAA06921@mt.sri.com> Date: Sat, 30 Oct 1999 00:12:59 +0200 Message-ID: <6801.941235179@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In message <199910292207.QAA06921@mt.sri.com>, Nate Williams writes: >> >Or you can simply ignore them completely w/out logging them, since AUTH >> >is a useless protocol, and you really shouldn't have a real AUTH daemon >> >running on your box in any case. >> >> On this topic also consider the "dummy" AUTH server in inetd... > >Someone (you?) posted one to the mailing list, and/or modified inetd to >use a dummy one. I'd have to go look in the archives. It's in there now, vastly improved over my initial submission. >However, I haven't had an auth server running on my box for over 3 >years, and it hasn't appeared to have hurt anything. :) > >I can wait the extra 2-3 seconds for the auth server to timeout to get >my email. :) It can be a problem for a busy mail server (guess why I did it :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message