Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2001 16:07:42 -0400 From: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery@ece.cmu.edu> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, Morgan Davis <mdavis@cts.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG, wollman@FreeBSD.ORG, Hajimu UMEMOTO <ume@mahoroba.org>, freebsd-print@bostonradio.org Subject: Re: lpd: Malformed from address Message-ID: <72810000.991512459@vpn5.ece.cmu.edu> In-Reply-To: <p05100e0db73ee6778f2a@[128.113.24.47]> References: <000001c0eb56$6d6ae250$241978d8@cts.com><p05100e0cb73ebb1a651d@[ 28.113.24.47]> <p05100e0db73ee6778f2a@[128.113.24.47]>
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On Saturday, June 02, 2001 15:02:37 -0400, Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> wrote: +----- | be dropped...). My gut feeling is that the check is good to | do, which gets us back to finding out why the implementation | added with IPv6 does not seem to work for Morgan. +--->8 For what it's worth, LPRng dropped the check because it puts a severe limit on the number of incoming and outgoing print jobs, and many implementations (especially DOS/Windows ones) don't restrict ports at all because the whole concept of reserved ports is meaningless on them. There's a good discussion of the issues in the LPRng FAQ/HOWTO. -- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering KF8NH carnegie mellon university ["better check the oblivious first" -ke6sls] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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