Re: Is it time to block all Microsoft protocols in the core?

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb () research att com>]

In message <20030128222210.GA84278 () pit databus com>, Barney Wolff writes:
> On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 03:50:34AM +0545, Joe Abley wrote:
> > On Wednesday, Jan 29, 2003, at 01:25 Asia/Katmandu, Joe Abley wrote:
> >
> > > 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 na?vely, that other operating 
> > > systems have done something similar.
> >
> > This is not right. Guess I was typing "man" in the wrong xterms.
> >
> > FreeBSD (4.x, 5.x) listens to the network by default (and can be 
> > persuaded not to with a "-s" flag). NetBSD (1.6) does the same.
>
> You were right the first time, at least for FreeBSD.  The "-s" flag
> is applied by default - see /etc/defaults/rc.conf .  Not quite as
> idiot-proof as a compiled-in default, but way better than defaulting
> to listening.

The same is true of NetBSD 1.6; look in the same place.


                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me)
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