On Dec 8 2006 02:04, Joachim Schrod wrote:
To quote Jon Postel in RFC 761, the TCP definition from Januay 1980, the last two lines on page 12:
be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.
Words to keep in mind, they served us well in more than 25 years -- RIP Jon Postel.
You know where this RFC attitude brought us - Web browsers accepting broken HTML, resulting in sloppy non-standard pages that display in less than average of the browsers. Especially when it comes to security, e.g. firewalls, it's better to turn the RFC quote: Be conservative in what you accept and be liberal in what you do. [http://jengelh.hopto.org/p/jen_ipfw/TECH.txt] Meaning: block all network packets that could potentially be harm and pro-actively try to stop any spammer using non-compliant probing techniques. -`J' -- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org