From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 25 12:38:56 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEBD416A4CE for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2005 12:38:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.freebsd.org.cn (dns3.freebsd.org.cn [61.129.66.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3499F43D58 for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2005 12:38:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from delphij@frontfree.net) Received: (qmail 37946 invoked by uid 0); 25 Jan 2005 12:30:30 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO beastie.frontfree.net) (219.239.99.7) by mail.freebsd.org.cn with SMTP; 25 Jan 2005 12:30:30 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.frontfree.net [127.0.0.1]) by beastie.frontfree.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BDA613182B for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2005 20:38:14 +0800 (CST) Received: from beastie.frontfree.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (beastie.frontfree.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 51018-16 for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2005 20:38:03 +0800 (CST) Received: from localhost.localdomain (unknown [61.49.186.236]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by beastie.frontfree.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12102130E59 for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2005 20:38:03 +0800 (CST) From: Xin LI To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-sjWVfu6vaKvFT3FB5NEw" Organization: The FreeBSD Simplified Chinese Project Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 20:36:47 +0800 Message-Id: <1106656607.615.5.camel@spirit> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.3 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at frontfree.net Subject: RFC: OpenBSD's netcat in base or ports? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: delphij@delphij.net List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 12:38:56 -0000 --=-sjWVfu6vaKvFT3FB5NEw Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear folks, A recent glance at OpenBSD indicates that they have an excellent re-written of nc(1), also known as "netcat" that is very handy for system administrators. The OpenBSD version of nc is licensed under the BSD License. While there may be some concerns about the potential security affects of it, I think it might be good if we have it in our base system, or in ports. Cheers, --=20 Xin LI http://www.delphij.net/ --=-sjWVfu6vaKvFT3FB5NEw Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: =?UTF-8?Q?=E8=BF=99=E6=98=AF=E4=BF=A1=E4=BB=B6=E7=9A=84=E6=95=B0?= =?UTF-8?Q?=E5=AD=97=E7=AD=BE=E5=90=8D=E9=83=A8?= =?UTF-8?Q?=E5=88=86?= -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBB9j1f/cVsHxFZiIoRAsgaAJ45VgbW1ypvQN/8P8EIBuK6O1kTyQCcDzoB m1mZOIp5Xky+YK7cszJQPy8= =Ql/4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-sjWVfu6vaKvFT3FB5NEw--