North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Is it time to block all Microsoft protocols in the core?
On Monday, Jan 27, 2003, at 14:04 Asia/Katmandu, Sean Donelan wrote: You're using mixed tense in these sentences, so I can't tell whether you think that syslog's network port is open by default on operating systems today.Its not just a Microsoft thing. SYSLOG opened the network port by default, and the user has to remember to disable it for only local logging. On FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Darwin/Mac OS X (the only xterms I happen to have open right now) this is not the case, and has not been for some time. I presume, perhaps na�vely, that other operating systems have done something similar. [...] Joe
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