[Users] Sometime t_really() func seem to be endless

Henning Westerholt henning.westerholt at 1und1.de
Thu May 24 15:49:08 CEST 2007


On Donnerstag, 24. Mai 2007, you wrote:
> > To warm-up an old discussion about this feature:
> >
> > i think this should be really disabled by default, because of user
> > confusion and possible security issues.
>
> I agree it confuses a bit (maybe because of the lack of docs), but other
> other hand it is useful as it spears a lot of resources without any deep
> knowledge from the user. Anyhow, what security issues do you see here?

Haven't look deeper into the code, but if somebody spoof some 503 packets to 
the server (easy with UDP), then he could easily disable all outbound 
destinations.

Henning




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