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Date:      Tue, 22 Oct 1996 22:31:25 -0400
From:      "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@freefall.freebsd.org>
Cc:        mark@grondar.za, freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: bin/826 
Message-ID:  <19791.846037885@orion.webspan.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 22 Oct 1996 14:34:21 PDT." <199610222134.OAA05894@freefall.freebsd.org> 

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"Marc G. Fournier" wrote in message ID
<199610222134.OAA05894@freefall.freebsd.org>:
> Synopsis: tcpmux listener in inetd does not work
> 
> State-Changed-From-To: open-feedback
> State-Changed-By: scrappy
> State-Changed-When: Tue Oct 22 14:32:08 PDT 1996
> State-Changed-Why: 
> 
> This problem seems to still exist...does anyone know anything
> about tcpmux?

I talked to Garrett about this a while back and never had a chance to
look at it again. His point of view is that it should be disabled,
code removed, and documented because it's a security hole (makes
firewall admin's nervous or somesuch). And a very valid point made by
Garrett: There are plenty of unassigned port numbers ... why do we
need to mux them?

Gary
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Gary Palmer                                          FreeBSD Core Team Member
FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info



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