Re: "broadcast ping" message
John Polstra <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile |
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| Organization | Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
In article <[email protected]>, Jamie Bowden <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 16 Apr 2003, John Polstra wrote: > > > To make a FreeBSD system respond to broadcast pings, you have to set > > the sysctl variable net.inet.icmp.bmcastecho to 1. > > Shouldn't the default be to DTRT and respond unless disabled? Until now, > the only systems on my network that didn't respond to broadcast pings were > my windows boxes, but I consider them broken by default. Why has the > default behavior changed, and isn't this a POLA issue? It was changed for security reasons. Responding to broadcast pings creates several potential denial of service attacks. John -- John Polstra John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"