- From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2011 19:42:54 +0000
- To: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
- cc: Andreas Petersson <andreas@sbin.se>, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, "Thomson, Martin" <Martin.Thomson@commscope.com>, Karl Dubost <karld@opera.com>, "ietf-http-wg@w3.org" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
In message <20110408161232.GE13348@1wt.eu>, Willy Tarreau writes: >Except that you will hardly find a product which logs a source port which >is randomly choosen by either the system or the lower layers for an outgoing >connection. ... unless the owners happen to know that they are under a legal obligation to be able to produce logging records for the next two years detailing such communications. >> So we should log the port number, always. > >I simply disagree here with "always". Please remember that we are talking about a SHOULD item, and that the definition allows you to write "FOOBAR" if you want to. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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