severity 312720 wishlist thanks On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 05:16:06PM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote: > This one was wide of the mark, now that I discovered something. > Apparently I have a custom firewall rule to block the nfsd ports. > But none for statd or mountd? Is it possible that they restricted their > listening in some way in woody, by /etc/exports possibly? Seems > unlikely, and yet why would I have blocked nfsd and not the others? > Doesn't matter, in the end. > > So, this should be downgraded to 'wishlist', keep it's security tag (I > think). Done.
> It would certainly make my day if these daemons only listened on > addresses in /etc/exports, or on the interfaces implied by the contents > of /etc/exports. To me it seems rather 1970's of these programs to be > so gragarious in their habits of listening on 0.0.0.0 no matter what. > Or perhaps it could take some arguments on the command line, ala dhcpd, > for the allowed interfaces to bind. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
