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From: Stephen Fromm <>
To: Andrew Lake <>, Hervey Allen <>,
Subject: Re: [perfsonar-user] memcached and firewall rules
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2018 10:21:56 -0800
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On Fri, 2018-02-09 at 06:18:06 -0800, Andrew Lake wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The only things that needs access to memcached comes from localhost. The
> esmond archiving plugin in pscheduler uses it as a cache between archiving
> processes to speed-up some requests. You can safely block it.

If it only needs to listen on the localhost, would it be prudent to
update the default install to force memcached to only listen on the
loopback? Updating /etc/sysconfig/memcached on CentOS derivatives with
the following seems to help:

OPTIONS="-l localhost"

Thanks,

--
Stephen Fromm
Network for Education and Research in Oregon

[perfsonar-user] memcached and firewall rules, Hervey Allen, 02/08/2018
- Re: [perfsonar-user] memcached and firewall rules, Andrew Lake, 02/09/2018
  - Re: [perfsonar-user] memcached and firewall rules, Hervey Allen, 02/09/2018
  - Re: [perfsonar-user] memcached and firewall rules, Stephen Fromm, 02/09/2018
  - Re: [perfsonar-user] memcached and firewall rules, Hervey Allen, 02/09/2018
    - Re: [perfsonar-user] memcached and firewall rules, Andrew Lake, 02/09/2018
      - Re: [perfsonar-user] memcached and firewall rules, Hans Kuhn, 02/09/2018
        
        Re: [perfsonar-user] memcached and firewall rules, Hervey Allen, 02/09/2018
        
        Re: [perfsonar-user] memcached and firewall rules, Andrew Lake, 02/12/2018
        
        Re: [perfsonar-user] memcached and firewall rules, Hervey Allen, 02/12/2018

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