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

Tue Jan 28 23:22:53 UTC 2003

On Wednesday, Jan 29, 2003, at 04:56 Asia/Katmandu, Steven M. Bellovin 
wrote:

> In message <20030128222210.GA84278 at 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.

Serves me right for contradicting myself.