Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2001 18:41:25 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> To: Yu-Shun Wang <yushunwa@isi.edu> Cc: Jonathan Chen <jon@FreeBSD.ORG>, net@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: forwarding broadcast Message-ID: <200108100041.f7A0fP132516@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 09 Aug 2001 10:27:05 PDT." <20010809102555.Y42772-100000@amc.isi.edu> References: <20010809102555.Y42772-100000@amc.isi.edu>
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In message <20010809102555.Y42772-100000@amc.isi.edu> Yu-Shun Wang writes: : I think it's specified in RFC 2644. It might be useful : to site it in the comments of the code. There were several incidents in the early days of the internet when this functionality was in place that caused all kinds of problems. Look at the trouble that Jordan got into in 1983 (search the RISKS archives) when he send a broadcast to all (which sent the wall to the entire internet at the time). While this wasn't exactly a network level broadcast, consider carefully the ramifications. There are many cases where could be useful turns into a security nightmare, so I'd be extremely reluctant to include this patch... Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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