Subject: Re: mail issues - status update
To: None <tech-net@netbsd.org>
From: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
List: tech-net
Date: 04/11/2000 08:28:53
[moved from a less appropriate elsewhere]
> We ship with source-routing enabled by default?
I should hope so.
Disabling source routing is shooting the messenger. The problem is not
source routing; the problem is daemons that make security decisions
based on peer IP addresses. Disabling source routing is like blocking
ICMP in order to stop ping-of-death DoS - the right thing to do is fix
the bugs, not paper over the holes.
der Mouse
mouse@rodents.montreal.qc.ca
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