Re: draft-ietf-syslog-protocol: "Reliable delivery considered harmful."

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On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 10:08:39AM -0800,
 David W. Hankins <David_Hankins@xxxxxxx> wrote 
 a message of 98 lines which said:

> If you block, that's a big problem as it ultimatley totally disables
> the service attempting to log information.

Wether it is a bug or a feature depends on your requirments. On some
high-security environments, people prefer to suspend the service
rather than not being able to log it. (Otherwise, an attacker could
easily attempt many attacks, fill in the hard disk and then perform
the real attack unlogged).

> reliable delivery of syslog output is always harmful.

Clearly, "always" is too much.

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