Re: The netsec thread

[Robert Pluim]

Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong <address@hidden> writes:

> On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 4:04 PM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> From: Robert Pluim <address@hidden>
>>> Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2018 10:17:52 +0200
>>> Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden>, Emacs-Devel devel <address@hidden>
>>> Iʼm a bit dubious about the whole 'nsm-trust-local-network' stuff. nsm
>>> already stores per-host settings, so why the need to check for RFC
>>> 1918 addresses? Besides, I can easily set things up so that Iʼm using
>>> RFC1918 addresses, but the packets would definitely not be going over
>>> what you'd think of as a 'local' or 'private' network.
>>>
>>> Iʼd thought this was going to be something like 'trust this subnet',
>>> which I can see people wanting, although Iʼd recommend against them
>>> using.
>>
>> Sounds like a good idea to me, yes.
>>
>
> That's exactly what it is, and why `network-trust-local-network`
> defaults to nil. I can fix the docstrings.

That may be its intent, but thatʼs not what the implementation in
nsm.el does, as far as I can tell. All I see are comparisons to
RFC1918 addresses.

Robert