Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 03:11:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: rotel@indigo.ie Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, sthaug@nethelp.no, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problem using 3 x znyx314 cards for 12 de ethernets Message-ID: <199809180311.UAA00693@usr04.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199809172153.WAA01841@indigo.ie> from "Niall Smart" at Sep 17, 98 10:53:19 pm
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> These are different issues, someone can be partly responsible for > a smurf attack without ever realising it and (more importantly) > without _their_ security/quality of service being compromised. I > don't care how many boxes get hacked as long as they aren't mine, > but it's reasonable to complain about a configuration which makes > it too easy for script kiddies to exploit the ineptitude or > carelessness of admins to affect _other_ competant and careful > admins boxes. > > It's akin to shipping sendmail with open relaying. If you want a C2 hardened system, quit pussyfooting around and start addressing the real issues leading up to C2 certification. Otherwise, griping about something that will never happen given a correctly configured firewall, and which "fixing" will break a behaviour that is universally known to be useful, seems a bit counter-productive. 8-(. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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