From: "Devon H. O'Dell" <devon.odell@gmail.com>
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] proposal: disable most of /rc/bin/services/tcp* by default
Date: Thu, 21 May 2015 11:08:26 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFgOgC89T7k16ptFZL=f0KBid1=c=SQBqMz5LMZEiQXeVHtArg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fe6dd39be3601c81d8bde42b4dc41f76@u2.inri>
2015-05-21 9:27 GMT-07:00 <sl@9front.org>:
>> This is a cpu server, there will be at least *one* service listening (cpu).
>> If your intend is to waste system resources, then you can as well use the
>> cpu service for that, it makes no difference what port you use.
>
> True.
>
> Here is another aspect to consider:
>
> What are the ramifications of each open port that is:
>
> - not configured
> - misconfigured
There's also at least a non-zero memory and computation overhead for
accepting connections and putting them into TCP instead of just
dropping them.
--dho
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-21 18:08 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 [this message]
2015-05-21 19:24 ` cinap_lenrek
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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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