[Nut-upsdev] Re: [nut-commits] svn commit r714 - in trunk: .

[Peter Selinger]

Arjen de Korte wrote:
> 
> 
> >> The question remains how to migrate to the new situation.
> [...]
> >> But would it be wise to open an AF_INET6
> >> socket bound to [::] as well, or would that open up a security hole?
> > errr... wait. you keep saying upsd only has one listening socket for
> > now, and now you want to open two? :)
> 
> We only have one listening socket now, but in the *new* situation, we'll
> be able to support an arbitrary number. OK, in reality this will probably
> limited by the amount the system is able to support, but I don't think nut
> must set a limit here. The question I had, if an AF_INET6 socket bound to
> [::] has security implications, if we would create this as 'service' when
> nut-2.2 is installed. Thinking it over, this is probably *not* a very good
> idea. A system administrator may not have noticed that we opened this
> socket without any access policy.

Is there any point, besides Ip4/Ip6 support, to listen on an unlimited
number of sockets? You can create an unlimited number of connections
by listening on just one socket, right? 

-- Peter