Re: "broadcast ping" message

Larry Rosenman <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>

--On Wednesday, April 16, 2003 12:05:41 -0700 Jamie Bowden 
<[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, 16 Apr 2003, John Polstra wrote:
>
>> Oh, drop it!  Security fixes don't wait on standards.  You've got a
>> knob to make it do what you want -- so use it.  Please stop the
>> whining or at least remove me from the cc list.
>
> Since when is DOS a security issue?  My issue is default behaviour
> violating both POLA and RFC.  You've got a knob to turn it off if it bugs
> you.
For clueless newbies that cause an ISP to be blacklisted, it sure as HECK 
**IS** a security
issue.


>
> 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]>
>
>
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