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From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@backplane.com>
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To: Chris Timmons <skynyrd@opus.cts.cwu.edu>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/ping ping.8 ping.c
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:I agree that unlimited iterations are undesirable in some environments as
:a default; however, I feel that the way to address that is via login.conf.
:
:Hard coding n iterations pretty much emasculates ping.  I feel that the
:recent controversial changes should be backed out until some sort of
:consensus can be achieved.
:
:-Chris

    I really don't think login.conf is the place to put application-specific
    restrictions.

						-Matt

    Matthew Dillon  Engineering, HiWay Technologies, Inc. & BEST Internet 
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