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-----Original Message----- From: Stephane Bortzmeyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 2:32 AM To: David W. Hankins Cc: ietf@ietf.org Subject: Re: draft-ietf-syslog-protocol: "Reliable delivery consideredharmful." On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 10:08:39AM -0800, David W. Hankins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 98 lines which said: > If you block, that's a big problem as it ultimatley totally disables > the service attempting to log information. Wether it is a bug or a feature depends on your requirments. On some high-security environments, people prefer to suspend the service rather than not being able to log it. (Otherwise, an attacker could easily attempt many attacks, fill in the hard disk and then perform the real attack unlogged). > reliable delivery of syslog output is always harmful. Clearly, "always" is too much. _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf _______________________________________________ Syslog mailing list Syslog@lists.ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/syslog
