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Re: Is it time to block all Microsoft protocols in the core?
From: Joe Abley <jabley () isc org>
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 01:25:09 +0545
On Monday, Jan 27, 2003, at 14:04 Asia/Katmandu, Sean Donelan wrote:
Its not just a Microsoft thing. SYSLOG opened the network port by default, and the user has to remember to disable it for only local logging.
You're using mixed tense in these sentences, so I can't tell whether you think that syslog's network port is open by default on operating systems today.
On FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Darwin/Mac OS X (the only xterms I happen to have open right now) this is not the case, and has not been for some time. I presume, perhaps naïvely, that other operating systems have done something similar.
[...] DESCRIPTIONsyslogd reads and logs messages to the system console, log files, othermachines and/or users as specified by its configuration file. The options are as follows: [...]-u Select the historical ``insecure'' mode, in which syslogd will accept input from the UDP port. Some software wants this, but you can be subjected to a variety of attacks over the network,including attackers remotely filling logs. [...]
Joe
Current thread:
- Is it time to block all Microsoft protocols in the core?, (continued)
- Is it time to block all Microsoft protocols in the core? Sean Donelan (Jan 27)
- Re: Is it time to block all Microsoft protocols in the core? Darren Pilgrim (Jan 27)
- Re: Is it time to block all Microsoft protocols in the core? Jack Bates (Jan 27)
- Re: Is it time to block all Microsoft protocols in the core? Rubens Kuhl Jr. (Jan 27)
- Re: Is it time to block all Microsoft protocols in the core? alex (Jan 27)
- Re: Is it time to block all Microsoft protocols in the core? E.B. Dreger (Jan 27)
- Re: Is it time to block all Microsoft protocols in the core? alex (Jan 27)
- Re: Is it time to block all Microsoft protocols in the core? E.B. Dreger (Jan 27)
- Re: Is it time to block all Microsoft protocols in the core? alex (Jan 27)
- Re: Is it time to block all Microsoft protocols in the core? E.B. Dreger (Jan 27)
- Re: Is it time to block all Microsoft protocols in the core? Joe Abley (Jan 28)
- Re: Is it time to block all Microsoft protocols in the core? David Charlap (Jan 28)
- Re: Is it time to block all Microsoft protocols in the core? Joe Abley (Jan 28)
- Re: Is it time to block all Microsoft protocols in the core? Barney Wolff (Jan 28)