Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 14:26:38 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Andreas Wideroe Andersen <awand@pragma.no> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Shoutcast on FreeBSD Message-ID: <20020924132638.GB16879@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <3D905D36.4090403@pragma.no> References: <3D905D36.4090403@pragma.no>
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On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 02:40:22PM +0200, Andreas Wideroe Andersen wrote:
> I was looking for it in ports, but couldn't find it there so I had
> to install the tgz file offered from Nullsoft. Does SHOUTcast server
> exist as a FreeBSD port? If not, why?
It's in ports. Here's one way to find things in the ports tree:
cd /usr/ports
make search name=shout
- or -
make search key=shout
> Is SHOUTcast a security risk? (it's using port 8000 and 8001)
It's not the port number that makes things risky. The question is: do
you trust that the programmers of the software have done a good job
and eliminated the possibility of buffer overruns or other nastyness
that a black-hat might induce by spewing datagrams at you? If you're
sufficiently confident of a yes answer, or you think that the risk
versus the rewards of running the software justifies it's use, then go
right ahead.
Cheers,
Matthew
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