[Fwd: Re: LSARC/2008/126 memcached 1.2.5 to be included in OpenSolaris]

[Casper.Dik at sun.com]

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>Jyri Virkki wrote:
>> Roy Lyseng wrote:
>>>> Thanks.  Does memcached issue a warning in the log if it starts 
>>>> listening on ports at risk?
>>> No. Do you know a way to identify ports that are at risk? I guess we 
>>> would need to communicate with firewalls in order to do this.
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>> Does it listen on all interfaces by default or only locahost?
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>The default is to bind with INADDR_ANY. You can set it to listen to a 
>single specific interface with the -l option.


Is there any reason for memcached to expect calls from remote systems?

If not, then it should not answer them/listen for them.

Casper