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

Tue Jan 28 22:05:34 UTC 2003

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 naïvely, 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.

Darwin/Mac OS X and OpenBSD do not listen by default (and can be 
persuaded to listen with a "-u" flag). (Looks like Darwin ships with 
OpenBSD's syslogd).

Various people mailed me and told me that "Linux" does not listen by 
default, presumably for commonly-packaged values of "Linux".

Joe