Bug 106315

Summary: man blackhole mentions ONLY ipfw
Product: Documentation Reporter: Dr. Markus Waldeck <waldeck>
Component: Books & ArticlesAssignee: Daniel Gerzo <danger>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description Dr. Markus Waldeck 2006-12-04 13:50:03 UTC
man blackhole:

> WARNING
>     The TCP and UDP blackhole features should not be regarded as a replace-
>     ment for ipfw(8) as a tool for firewalling a system.  In order to create
>     a highly secure system, ipfw(8) should be used for protection, not the
>     blackhole feature.

I agree absolutely with the intention of the warning.

But ipfw is NOT the only firewall implementation 
which is available in FreeBSD!
Comment 1 Daniel Gerzo freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2006-12-30 23:59:23 UTC
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-doc->danger

Take.
Comment 2 Daniel Gerzo freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2007-01-01 21:18:42 UTC
State Changed
From-To: open->patched

Fixed in -HEAD in revision: 1.13. I will take care of MFC. 
Thank you for your submission!
Comment 3 dfilter service freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2007-01-01 21:22:47 UTC
danger      2007-01-01 21:22:32 UTC

  FreeBSD src repository (doc committer)

  Modified files:
    share/man/man4       blackhole.4 
  Log:
  Forgot to mention that the last revision was fix for:
  
  PR: docs/106315
  MFC-after: 3 days
  Approved by: trhodes (mentor)
  
  Revision  Changes    Path
  1.14      +0 -0      src/share/man/man4/blackhole.4
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Comment 4 dfilter service freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2008-06-20 23:52:50 UTC
danger      2008-06-20 22:52:33 UTC

  FreeBSD src repository

  Modified files:        (Branch: RELENG_6)
    share/man/man4       blackhole.4 
  Log:
  SVN rev 179902 on 2008-06-20 22:52:33Z by danger
  
  MFC: Do not claim that ipfw is the only firewall package available
       in FreeBSD.
  
  PR:             docs/106315
  
  Revision  Changes    Path
  1.12.2.1  +8 -7      src/share/man/man4/blackhole.4
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Comment 5 Daniel Gerzo freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2008-06-20 23:53:43 UTC
State Changed
From-To: patched->closed

I have MFC-ed my changes to RELENG_6.