Hi,

thanks for bringing this up!

Am 29.09.18 um 23:38 schrieb Matt Marjanovic:
> In particular, this means that the ERL_EPMD_ADDRESS parameter is ignored.
> This is typically used to reduce the attack surface of epmd by telling it
> to only listen on localhost.  As installed, epmd will listen on all 
> interfaces.
> 
> This is to some degree an issue for the erlang-base package, which provides
> epmd
> and its systemd units and *should* provide a config option to restrict epmd to
> listening on localhost only.  However, it is the ejabberd package that 
> provides
> the /etc/default/ejabberd file.

I will patch out the ERL_EPMD_ADDRESS part of /etc/default/ejabberd, the
rest should be fine as it does not concern epmd but the Erlang VM that
ejabberd is running in.

I will also contact the Erlang maintainer.


Best wishes,
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