Date: Sat, 30 Oct 1999 00:12:59 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Cc: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@monkeys.com>, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Some fixes for some non-features of the /etc/rc.firewall script Message-ID: <6801.941235179@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 29 Oct 1999 16:07:59 MDT." <199910292207.QAA06921@mt.sri.com>
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In message <199910292207.QAA06921@mt.sri.com>, Nate Williams writes: >> >Or you can simply ignore them completely w/out logging them, since AUTH >> >is a useless protocol, and you really shouldn't have a real AUTH daemon >> >running on your box in any case. >> >> On this topic also consider the "dummy" AUTH server in inetd... > >Someone (you?) posted one to the mailing list, and/or modified inetd to >use a dummy one. I'd have to go look in the archives. It's in there now, vastly improved over my initial submission. >However, I haven't had an auth server running on my box for over 3 >years, and it hasn't appeared to have hurt anything. :) > >I can wait the extra 2-3 seconds for the auth server to timeout to get >my email. :) It can be a problem for a busy mail server (guess why I did it :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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