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Date:      Thu, 23 Mar 2000 15:29:54 -0400
From:      "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" <jeroen@vangelderen.org>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Audit List <freebsd-audit@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Portmapper enabled, IPv6 circumvents FW
Message-ID:  <38DA70B2.96AF6B6D@vangelderen.org>
References:  <38DA6D77.FB93FC36@vangelderen.org> <200003231923.MAA42847@harmony.village.org>

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Warner Losh wrote:
> 
> In message <38DA6D77.FB93FC36@vangelderen.org> "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" writes:
> : I'd suggest disabling the portmapper in a default installation
> : unless there is a good reason not to.
> 
> Sadly too many people want NFS :-(.  It is a big pita to run nfs w/o
> portmapper.

But why not enable portmapper contingent on NFS being enabled? Not
possible?

> : Another solution is to add a comment to /etc/inetd.conf because
> : that's what people usually edit on new systems (because FreeBSD
> : *still* runs ftpd and telnetd by default).
> 
> Agreed.
> 
> : Opinions?
> 
> I've been sent patches that make *ALL* network services off by
> default.  I'm thinking seriously about committing them to at least
> -current and maybe to -stable also.  These patches also hack
> sysinstall to enable them in /etc/rc.conf so as to not effectively
> change our system defaults.

Interesting, would this include disabling sendmail by default? 
(Please say yes.)

Cheers,
Jeroen
-- 
Jeroen C. van Gelderen - jeroen@vangelderen.org
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