On Jan 11, 2006, at 10:05 PM, kravnus wolf wrote:

> What was wrong with Unix in the past?  Why a "bad" guy?

I really don't want to get into that here.  The nay-sayers are
all gone, and unix has survived.  For the purpose of this
conversation, you can start with the fact that unix systems
decided that they were routers by default, but the code authors
hadn't read the RFCs carefully enough to get the broadcast address
right (or didn't care.)  It also foisted atrocities like a
"privileged" TCP port range, intensely insecure protocols like
rlogin, and a full set of chatty broadcast protocols of dubious
merit (rwhod, etc) (which tickled the broadcast forwarding bugs
very nicely, of course...)  And then there's "grep."

BillW
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