[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI Hipster becomes unreachable over network after a certain length of uptime

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Tue, 12 Apr 2022, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote:
>> 
>> Probably an oversight, I'd guess. As with many such situations, things that
>> aren't obviously and critically broken don't get much attention ;)
>
> In fact, it is critically broken, as a routing service introduces
> a whole new security context that can open critical intrusion pathes.

This is true, and in fact RIP 
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Routing_Information_Protocol) has been 
known to be flawed since the early '90s.

Any service not needed by a host should be disabled if possible.

Bob
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