From owner-cvs-usrsbin Sat May 3 15:42:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA22601 for cvs-usrsbin-outgoing; Sat, 3 May 1997 15:42:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nagual.pp.ru (ache.relcom.ru [194.58.229.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA22591; Sat, 3 May 1997 15:42:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ache@localhost) by nagual.pp.ru (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA01168; Sun, 4 May 1997 02:42:20 +0400 (MSD) Date: Sun, 4 May 1997 02:42:17 +0400 (MSD) From: =?KOI8-R?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?= To: Joerg Wunsch cc: CVS-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-usrsbin@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/syslogd syslogd.8 syslogd.c In-Reply-To: <199705032217.PAA25401@freefall.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-usrsbin@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 3 May 1997, Joerg Wunsch wrote: > Add an option to syslogd to restrict the IP addresses that are allowed > to log to this syslogd. It's too late to develop the inter-syslogd > communications protocol mentioned in the BUGS section, some 10 years > too late. Thus, restricting the IP address range is about the most > effective change we can do if we want to allow incoming syslog > messages at all. Hmm, what about some sort of /etc/syslogd.allow and /etc/syslogd.deny files instead? Just one IP address is no gain for dinamic IP or multihomed hosts. -- Andrey A. Chernov http://www.nagual.pp.ru/~ache/