Requesting to revert and leaving this to procps: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ufw/+bug/1737585
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to ufw in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/189565 Title: ufw enables syncookies by default, which is not considered a great idea Status in ufw package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: Binary package hint: ufw The default configuration of ufw enables syncookies, which is not considered a great idea by the developers of the Linux network stack. For details see this thread: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/85365 From that message: > Syncookies are discouraged these days. They disable too many > valuable TCP features (window scaling, SACK) and even without them > the kernel is usually strong enough to defend against syn floods > and systems have much more memory than they used to be. Regards, Daniel To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ufw/+bug/189565/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
