On Fri, 09 Apr 2004, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
On 9-apr-04, at 22:27, Pekka Savola wrote:
Another pet peeve of roughly the same category: when you enable IPv6, telnet is automatically open to the world (using v6), even if you have disabled v4 telnet with an access-list.
The vendor refused to believe this is a problem,
Whether or not this is a problem is in the eye of the beholder, but from what I've seen, this is standard practice with any kind of packet filter. As far as I know, only hosts.allow-style tcp wrapping is agnostic about the IP version.
If you want to run a new protocol, you have to configure filters for it unless you want to go through life unfiltered. That's the way things work.
It's even worse with FreeBSD: if you firewall it to the teeth in v4 and disable v6 in the rc.conf, it will still run v6 with link-local addresses and allow access to the services that are filtered in v4.
Bad FreeBSD, no cookie for FreeBSD :) But if you don't need IPv6, remove INET6 from your kernel config file, rc.conf is not the right place to do it either. - yann