Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 18 Jan 2000 00:13:48 +0100 | From | almesber@lrc ... | Subject | Re: IP filtering should default to DENY? |
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Russell King wrote: > I for one run this exact setup - a root NFS masquerading firewall. A change > to a default of DENY would currently break root NFS.
But then, there are of course plenty of people who'd love to murder kernel-based NFS root at the earliest opportunity anyway ;-)
(Besides this, I don't think we should default to DENY. You can always do that in user space, so the best strategy is probably to preserve the existing behaviour - least surprise principle.)
- Werner
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