Subject: Re: NetKGDB v3

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 16:04:50 -0800

On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 22:30:08 -0500
Andrei Warkentin <[email-masked]> wrote:

> netkgdb is designed to accept connections
> from any hosts, i.e. it is not necessary to specify these ahead
> of time. This makes it that much more useful in a "this host crashed
> and a I want a developer to take a look at it" scenario, common to
> large scale test/QA farms and automated testing harnesses.

And opens a security hole so wide that no production network
or distro should ever enable it!