Ngie Cooper <n...@freebsd.org> wrote in <201703030613.v236dxdl010...@repo.freebsd.org>:
ng> Author: ngie ng> Date: Fri Mar 3 06:13:59 2017 ng> New Revision: 314585 ng> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/314585 ng> ng> Log: ng> Correct verb change for service => `*` after r314563 ng> ng> `*` means that packets will be received from a remote peer on any port. ng> Since the point of interest is the syslogd instance (not the remote peer), ng> the appropriate verb is "received", not "sent". ng> ng> MFC after: 1 month ng> X-MFC with: r314563 ng> Sponsored by: Dell EMC Isilon ng> ng> Modified: ng> head/usr.sbin/syslogd/syslogd.8 ng> ng> Modified: head/usr.sbin/syslogd/syslogd.8 ng> ============================================================================== ng> --- head/usr.sbin/syslogd/syslogd.8 Fri Mar 3 06:06:27 2017 (r314584) ng> +++ head/usr.sbin/syslogd/syslogd.8 Fri Mar 3 06:13:59 2017 (r314585) ng> @@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ A ng> .Ar service ng> of ng> .Ql \&* ng> -allows packets to be sent from any UDP port. ng> +allows packets to be received from any UDP port. ng> The default ng> .Ar service It is incorrect that syslogd receives a UDP packet on any local port when a "*" is specified. This address validation is done by using the source port number in a received UDP packet, so the point of interest is the remote peer. How about "...accepts UDP packets sent with any source port" or something? -- Hiroki
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