Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 21:21:24 +1100 (EST) From: Darren Reed <darrenr@cyber.com.au> To: fenner@parc.xerox.com (Bill Fenner) Cc: guido@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-sys@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/netinet ip_input.c Message-ID: <199710281021.VAA27329@plum.cyber.com.au> In-Reply-To: <97Oct27.204111pst.177487@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> from "Bill Fenner" at Oct 27, 97 08:41:04 pm
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In some mail I received from Bill Fenner, sie wrote [...] > However, there is a problem with the actual change: the "goto" bypasses > the strcpy() which gives log() something to print. In addition, the whole > log(LOG_WARNING, ...) for each packet provides a wonderful denial of service > attack (I understand this isn't new with this commit, but it's still an > issue). At least log() is used and you have a chance to redirect it via syslogd(?) to a file...if you relied on ipfw using printf, everything would go out via the console.
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