[Info-vax] OT: Solaris-11

[Fritz Wuehler]

> >> 1) According to Oracle, Solaris is not fully protected from attack
> >> until it is fully booted (really? I was led to believe that security
> >> was built into UNIX). For this reason, Solaris-11 has been modified so
> >> that the network remains disconnected until booting has finished.

The network may technically be up but I have found it is one of the last
things that actually responds. I get a console prompt on my servers running
Solaris 10 before they will respond to an SSH request. I don't think there
is any danger.

Maybe their definition of "fully booted" does not mean "fully up" since
booting is a pretty specific phase of loading the OS.

> Also, routing is started fairly early.  Well, everything that
> is internal to the kernel starts early, and maybe some of those
> could cause problems.

In theory, but I don't believe so in practice.