On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 08:37:03AM +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote: > Or have a firewall configured.
A (properly configured) firewall¹ might prevent *inbound* service abuse, but there's always a potential for a mis- or un-configured service to cause problems on a network (*outbound* service abuse²): a contrived example might be a DHCP server advertising leases³. 1. and we still don't supply a configured firewall with a default install 2. yes, perhaps a properly configured firewall has a default deny outbound policy, too… 3. which I expect no existing packaged dhcpd will do; hence contrived -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110802091606.GB918@pris
