RCfix_options()

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Mon Feb 4 04:13:32 UTC 2002


Katsuhiro Kondou <Katsuhiro_Kondou at isc.org> writes:
> "Jeffrey M. Vinocur" <jeff at litech.org> wrote;

> } Does anyone know the purpose of RCfix_options() in innd/rc.c ?
> } 
> } We see the comment, but we don't, uh, "get it".  What's the point?

> I believe it tries to avoid unwanted behavior like source routing.

Yeah, similar to what TCP wrappers does.  I don't know if this is
necessary any more or if anything actually cares.  May be a good question
to ask on news.software.nntp to get the opinions of folks like Andrew
Gierth.

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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