Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 14:26:38 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Andreas Wideroe Andersen <awand@pragma.no> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Shoutcast on FreeBSD Message-ID: <20020924132638.GB16879@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <3D905D36.4090403@pragma.no> References: <3D905D36.4090403@pragma.no>
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On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 02:40:22PM +0200, Andreas Wideroe Andersen wrote: > I was looking for it in ports, but couldn't find it there so I had > to install the tgz file offered from Nullsoft. Does SHOUTcast server > exist as a FreeBSD port? If not, why? It's in ports. Here's one way to find things in the ports tree: cd /usr/ports make search name=shout - or - make search key=shout > Is SHOUTcast a security risk? (it's using port 8000 and 8001) It's not the port number that makes things risky. The question is: do you trust that the programmers of the software have done a good job and eliminated the possibility of buffer overruns or other nastyness that a black-hat might induce by spewing datagrams at you? If you're sufficiently confident of a yes answer, or you think that the risk versus the rewards of running the software justifies it's use, then go right ahead. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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