The problem here is that you're not being shot in the foot, you're moving a semi full of ammo and parking it in front of my building. Collateral damage from other people being lazy with their servers is a pain. Oh, and this was used to set a new high water mark for 'Biggest DDoS' against github. 1.5 Tbps. So, its a pretty big deal. And that ignoring the additional vulnurability from just getting everything useful out of the memcached server, or continuously clearing the server to damage performance of the app relying on it. If your gun's default aiming position is at your foot, then there's a good argument to change the default. It doesn't solve the problem, but it helps. On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 3:51 PM, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:
The defaults for Zimbra seem to be to listen everywhere all the time. amidst all the hysterical pontification, i am having trouble finding any release which has, by default, a port 11211 listener on any interface.
sorry, i should have said "any operating system release"
yes, you can install memcached
yes, you can install some j random container which has memcached
yes, you can shoot yourself in the foot; welcome to the internet
my point was merely that the hysteria and grandstanding can cost a lot of ops a bunch of time. and folk should be aware that normal, simple, vanilla environments will not be a source of reflection.
of course, they might be a target :)
randy