On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 11:04:31AM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote: > To cap it off, the discard service seems to be enabled out of the box. So > is daytime. Daytime's not too bad, but discard? I personally believe we > should be shipping sarge such that it installs offering the smallest > number of network services by default, and the user should explicitly > enable the ones they want. I can't see any reason for the discard service > on an Internet facing box in this day and age.
I would like to see inetd leave the base system as well, but what problem could you possibly have with the discard service? > My personal preference would be for xinetd to be the default inet daemon > installed, as if you use Red Hat's model of having an /etc/xinet.d/ (or > whatever it is) it becomes trivial to be able to manage > (de)activation of individual services offered by xinetd. It's pretty trivial with netkit-inetd as well; you edit /etc/inetd.conf and comment out what you don't want. > I've got a bit of spare time up my sleeves at the moment, and would like > to help make netkit-inetd not part of a base install. What would it take? http://bugs.debian.org/87240 -- - mdz
