Re: "broadcast ping" message
Jamie Bowden <[email protected]>
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On Wed, 16 Apr 2003, Larry Rosenman wrote: > --On Wednesday, April 16, 2003 10:58:20 -0700 John Polstra > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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. > It's also against current best practices for ISP's. Even Cisco changed the > routers > to NOT respond to directed-broadcast by default. > > The RFC was NOT written for today's internet. Then submit a draft for a superceding RFC, don't ignore it just because it's inconvenient. That's a Microsoft attitude. Jamie Bowden -- "It was half way to Rivendell when the drugs began to take hold" Hunter S Tolkien "Fear and Loathing in Barad Dur" Iain Bowen <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"