Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 17:36:28 -0500 From: Justin White <justinfinity@mac.com> To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Heads up, a bit: ephemeral port range changes Message-ID: <3D426F83-4753-11D6-9621-000393092F82@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20020403221056.GB89405@madman.nectar.cc>
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On Wednesday, April 3, 2002, at 05:10 , Jacques A. Vidrine wrote: > On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 10:00:27PM -0600, Mike Silbersack wrote: >> On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote: >> If this really is going to cause problems, >> it's better that we find out now rather than wait until >> 4.6-release. (I >> don't believe it will cause problems, in any case.) > > I disagree. Some people running -STABLE will be behind firewalls > which they don't administrate. After updating one day [1], they may > suddenly have network applications failing in strange ways. For some > people, it will be very hard to track down the problem. > > Why do you feel you must change this in the -STABLE branch? What > benefit is it to the users of -STABLE? > > I don't object outright to merging the change during 4.6-RELEASE code > slush, although I think that it is a gratuitous change for a minor > release bump. why wait for code slush? as long as the same notice that was in the original e-mail (about firewalls that specifically allow 1024-5000 and disallow others) is put into /usr/src/UPDATING, there should be no problems. no one will just "update one day" and not be able to find the problem. the problem (IF they have it) will be right there in /usr/src/UPDATING, with a solution. if you're tracking stable, current, or just updating releases, and not reading /usr/src/UPDATING, you should be. that's what it's there for. -Justin White justinfinity@mac.com http://justinfinity.2y.net/ AIM:just6979 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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