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From: "Trent Waddington" <trent.waddington@gmail.com>
To: "Jan Engelhardt" <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Cc: "Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [discuss] portmapping sucks
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 10:19:52 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3d57814d0701241619l4b9239fdk78342f08469bbbd7@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0701250030530.32656@yvahk01.tjqt.qr>

On 1/25/07, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> wrote:
> There are a number of common ports in the 512-1023 range. All
> obsolescence and meaninglessness aside, there _are_ rather "important"
> services in that range, ldaps, rtsp, kerberos, rsync, ftps, imaps, just
> to name a few from /etc/services. This map-to-random-port behavior is a
> total DoS thing.

Any reason why you can't make a one line code change to use a better
range?  Or add a blacklist?

Trent

  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-25  0:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-24 23:50 Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-25  0:19 ` Trent Waddington [this message]
2007-01-25  3:10 ` Trond Myklebust
2007-01-26  0:14 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh

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