From owner-cvs-all Fri Feb 21 7:32:58 2003 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD58537B401; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 07:32:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FAA143FD7; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 07:32:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Received: by flood.ping.uio.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id 70035536E; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 16:32:49 +0100 (CET) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Paul Richards Cc: "Jacques A. Vidrine" , "M. Warner Losh" , ru@FreeBSD.org, cjc@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/netinet in_pcb.c From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 16:32:48 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20030221151709.GH68768@survey.codeburst.net> (Paul Richards's message of "Fri, 21 Feb 2003 15:17:09 +0000") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.090014 (Oort Gnus v0.14) Emacs/21.2 (i386--freebsd) References: <200302210528.h1L5SS0H092948@repoman.freebsd.org> <20030221131205.GE30966@sunbay.com> <20030221.062059.34122968.imp@bsdimp.com> <20030221135056.GA32007@madman.celabo.org> <20030221143149.GF68768@survey.codeburst.net> <20030221151709.GH68768@survey.codeburst.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Paul Richards writes: > Yes, but if a lot of people start changing this setting and FreeBSD gets > a reputation for being insecure then we may wish we hadn't provided the > knob. The world's most widely used operating system has never placed restrictions on low-numbered ports. It *does* have a reputation for being insecure, but not for that reason (though some nutcases^Wpeople have argued that the vendor's decision to include the equivalent of raw sockets in their latest release marked the beginning of the end of the Internet, film at 11) DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message