This is why I have a blug: I can blast out pointless rants and feel better, but only people who've chosen to see my rants have to endure them.
Can someone do a rant about top-posters for me? I'm sick of those inconsiderate nasty people... On 22/05/07, Howard Lowndes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I've just wasted half the afternoon trying to work out why a tftp server wasn't delivering a config file to a VoIP phone, and I finally discover that it's mode of operation has been changed during an "upgrade" of the tftp server, presumably to "enhance" security. The client had been requesting the file by accessing destination port 69udp on the server, and the server had been delivering the file via source port 69udp. This meant that I could have very tight and specific filters in iptables. Now I discover that the server delivers the files via random high source ports instead, which means that now I have to open up the filters to accommodate a wide range of source ports from the server instead of the original port 69. I do not call that enhanced security and the idiot that thinks it is should be emasculated. To add insult to injury I can find nothing in the scant documentation to tell me how to force the server back to its original mode of operation. I feel better now :) -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people <http://lannetlinux.com> When you want a computer system that works, just choose Linux; When you want a computer system that works, just, choose Microsoft. -- Flatter government, not fatter government; abolish the Australian states. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
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