From owner-freebsd-security Sun Feb 24 8:46:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8142A37B400 for ; Sun, 24 Feb 2002 08:46:30 -0800 (PST) Received: by flood.ping.uio.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id E6D6A5341; Sun, 24 Feb 2002 17:46:27 +0100 (CET) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: "Jeff Palmer" Cc: "Ralph Huntington" , Subject: Re: Couple of concerns with default rc.firewall References: <20020224104008.H14963-100000@mohegan.mohawk.net> <001901c1bd4e$3f03d8c0$0286a8c0@home.lan> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 24 Feb 2002 17:46:27 +0100 In-Reply-To: <001901c1bd4e$3f03d8c0$0286a8c0@home.lan> Message-ID: Lines: 13 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Jeff Palmer" writes: > I'm not sure if you two are bored, or what the problem is. Maybe the problem is your attitude, and your inability and / or unwillingness to express yourself clearly. If the question is "why don't any of the default policies in /etc/rc.firewall include a rule to let icmp packets through?", the answer is (probably) "because nobody cared enough add one". DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message