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From: cinap_lenrek@felloff.net
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] proposal: disable most of /rc/bin/services/tcp* by default
Date: Thu, 21 May 2015 21:24:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <85dab4ca7dcda1bed787c7c6d5c5c50c@felloff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFgOgC89T7k16ptFZL=f0KBid1=c=SQBqMz5LMZEiQXeVHtArg@mail.gmail.com>

only the total number of connections that you accept matter,
not if you spread the connections over different services.

the only valid point is that you avoid the connection overhead
for automatic scans for common services that try to bruteforce
passwords (or try to send spam email over the open smtp service)
when you do not listen on these common ports.

but if someone want to exhaust your tcp connections they can do
that with any service that accepts connections.

anyway, i'm fine with less services listening by default if
that fixes the robot scanner problem for them.

--
cinap


  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-21 19:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-21 16:27 sl
2015-05-21 18:08 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2015-05-21 19:24   ` cinap_lenrek [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-05-21 19:29 sl
2015-05-21 19:38 ` cinap_lenrek
2015-05-21 18:01 sl
2015-05-21 18:06 ` Kurt H Maier
2015-05-21 16:15 sl
2015-05-20 22:51 sl
2015-05-21  9:20 ` cinap_lenrek
2015-05-20 18:46 sl
2015-05-21  9:18 ` cinap_lenrek
2015-05-20 18:16 sl
2015-05-20 18:32 ` [9front] " cinap_lenrek
2015-05-20 18:36   ` Kurt H Maier
2015-05-20 20:10 ` mischief
2015-05-20 20:34   ` cinap_lenrek
2015-05-20 22:46     ` Kurt H Maier
2015-05-21  9:19       ` cinap_lenrek
2015-05-21 11:05 ` arisawa
2015-05-20 17:07 sl
2015-05-20 17:01 sl

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