On December 4, 2014 8:12:58 AM PST, Andrew Savchenko <birc...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >Yes. But booting as much services as possible is even more >preferable, especially when box is remote.
Are you sure booting most, but not all, services in a loop is always better than booting none of them at all? What if I have an insecure dæmon listening on TCP, I need it running, but I want to ensure only local processes can connect to it? Obviously, I would make it “need iptables”, assuming the dæmon doesn’t have its own bind address config knob. What if now, by some accident, iptables ends up in a loop (maybe not even a loop including $insecure_service, but some other loop entirely), and it’s the randomly chosen victim? Is it still good to boot as many services as possible? I think not. -- Christopher Head
