Re: The netsec thread

[Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong]

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.