Why admin's do not trust daemons to do their own packet filtering (was Re: Resuming the great cleanup)

[Eric S. Raymond]

Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net>:
> 
> kurt at roeckx.be said:
> > Do we only have 1/2 socket by default, or do we still have a listen socket
> > per interface / ip address? 
> 
> The current code has a socket per interface and a wildcard socket.
> 
> It also has another pile of (ugly) code to watch the interfaces and create a 
> new socket when an interface appears and remove a socket and associated 
> connections when an interface goes away.
> 
> There should potentially be similar code to track routing changes.

Assuming we drop interface-name filtering, everything but the wildcard
socket is going to go away.  I think this will make tracking routing unecessary.
I hope so, anyway.  That code is a mess and I want to nuke it.

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