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Date:      Mon, 6 Jun 2016 20:06:30 +0300
From:      Andrey Chernov <ache@freebsd.org>
To:        Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>, lidl@FreeBSD.org, Matteo Riondato <rionda@gmail.com>
Cc:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r301226 - in head: etc etc/defaults etc/periodic/security etc/rc.d lib lib/libblacklist libexec libexec/blacklistd-helper share/mk tools/build/mk usr.sbin usr.sbin/blacklistctl usr.sbin...
Message-ID:  <9aafd3b8-ebe2-5ac8-e91b-31ffed34eff1@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <1465232404.1188.5.camel@freebsd.org>
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On 06.06.2016 20:00, Ian Lepore wrote:
> Probably everyone assumed (like I did) that it would be disabled by
> default, and didn't notice that wasn't the case.  Your response
> indicates the problem with "default enabled"... you mention enabling
> packet filtering in pf.conf, my response is:  WTF is pf.conf and why
> are you assuming I do any kind of packet filtering?
> 
> I have literally dozens of systems here running freebsd, only one of
> them runs ipfw, and most of them are systems with small memory and
> wimpy processors, so why would I want extra do-nothing network daemons
> running on them by default?

As variant, I keep hope blacklist sh helper will teach about ipfw soon,
it looks possible. Then it can be re-enabled by default.





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