From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jun 2 13: 8:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ece.cmu.edu (ECE.CMU.EDU [128.2.236.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCB5337B422; Sat, 2 Jun 2001 13:08:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from allbery@ece.cmu.edu) Received: from vpn5.ece.cmu.edu (ANNEX-4.ECE.CMU.EDU [128.2.136.4]) (authenticated) by ece.cmu.edu (8.11.0/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f52K7ug08174; Sat, 2 Jun 2001 16:07:56 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2001 16:07:42 -0400 From: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" To: Garance A Drosihn , Morgan Davis , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG, wollman@FreeBSD.ORG, Hajimu UMEMOTO , freebsd-print@bostonradio.org Subject: Re: lpd: Malformed from address Message-ID: <72810000.991512459@vpn5.ece.cmu.edu> In-Reply-To: References: <000001c0eb56$6d6ae250$241978d8@cts.com> X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.1.0a6 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, June 02, 2001 15:02:37 -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote: +----- | be dropped...). My gut feeling is that the check is good to | do, which gets us back to finding out why the implementation | added with IPv6 does not seem to work for Morgan. +--->8 For what it's worth, LPRng dropped the check because it puts a severe limit on the number of incoming and outgoing print jobs, and many implementations (especially DOS/Windows ones) don't restrict ports at all because the whole concept of reserved ports is meaningless on them. There's a good discussion of the issues in the LPRng FAQ/HOWTO. -- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering KF8NH carnegie mellon university ["better check the oblivious first" -ke6sls] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message