From: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] inadyn: fix init script and default config file
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 12:24:06 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55A52996.9090403@zacarias.com.ar> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150714171916.56ef4a3f@free-electrons.com>
On 14/07/15 12:19, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
>> You definitely don't want this, if it's not configured and requires
>> configuration for any sane usage let it be so.
>> You don't want to do this kind of thing by default:
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTP_server_misuse_and_abuse
>
> Hu? What's the relation between NTP server misuse and Inadyn which is a
> tool that updates a DynDNS entry with your IP address? Am I missing
> something?
If you ship a config that starts up inadyn with user=test pass=test with
some X dyndns service that could potentially flood said service/server
with a bogus/useless setting.
It might not matter with small usage scenarios, but if a firmware image
is shipped for some networking appliance which doesn't sanitize the
config then you've got a similar scenario to the NTP flood.
> But then if 'background' is in the config file, we will background it
> twice. Since inadyn generates its own PID file, it might be OK, but
> it's not that nice either.
>
> I think our init scripts are anyway done to work fine with our default
> configuration files. If you change the configuration file, you have to
> be ready to adjust init scripts as well I'd say, no?
I haven't tested the detail, but -b is probably the same as "background"
in the config and won't background twice (i'm talking of the inadyn -b
option, not backgrounding from start-stop-daemon).
Regards.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-14 15:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-05 15:12 [Buildroot] [PATCH] inadyn: fix init script and default config file Thomas Petazzoni
2015-07-11 10:25 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2015-07-14 14:24 ` Gustavo Zacarias
2015-07-14 15:19 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2015-07-14 15:24 ` Gustavo Zacarias [this message]
2015-07-14 15:59 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2015-07-14 16:05 ` Gustavo Zacarias
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