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Re: ALL: PARANOID from /etc/hosts.deny Should be Commented by default



On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 08:39:01AM -0700, Adam McKenna wrote:
> between Debian boxes and clients with incorrectly configured DNS.  You may be
> OK with this, but to me this is a gross violation of the robustness
> principle, and a way to cause people headache with very little gain in
> return.

So in summary, this is another one of Debian's famous flamewars where
somebody argues that the defaults must change to suit their preferences,
even though it is easy to override the defaults on a system by system
basis.

Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>



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