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On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Paul Murphy wrote: > > This *is* my new ISP. I understand their stance, they work are working > from a standard security perspective. "Don't open it unless you need > to". This is an admirable stance, although misapplied in this case. > You always have to strike a balance between security and funcionality > and I feel that they have erred more on the side of security than is > necessary and so removed a fundamental part of functionality. > > So I need to work around the problem. > Copy /etc/protocols from another machine into your perl script literally. I doubt the protocol numbers will be changing anytime soon. And not making /etc/protocols world-readable will not make a system one bit more secure, just more annoying to use. Security by obscurity doesn't work.Thread Previous | Thread Next