Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 21:30:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Jacques Vidrine <n@nectar.com> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/12091 syslog packets from a remote machine are not accepted unless the address is specified as xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/32 -- shorter masks (including defaults) cause packets to be dropped by syslogd. Message-ID: <199910060430.VAA18512@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/12091; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Jacques Vidrine <n@nectar.com> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Cc: adrian@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/12091 syslog packets from a remote machine are not accepted unless the address is specified as xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/32 -- shorter masks (including defaults) cause packets to be dropped by syslogd. Date: Tue, 05 Oct 1999 23:22:38 -0500 The right thing to do is to DTRT (fix the address/mask pair) and give them a warning. I would use a warning message such as: $ syslogd -a 1.1.1.1/24 WARNING: matching 1.1.1.0/24, I hope this is what you wanted. There's nothing intrinsically _wrong_ with specifying something such as 1.1.1.1/24, and it can be handy when cutting & pasting (I want to accept anything from the network THAT machine is on). To me this is a bug in the packet matching code, because 1.1.1.1 & 255.255.255.0 = 1.1.1.0. Jacques Vidrine / n@nectar.com / nectar@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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