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Jon Mitchell wrote: |
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> On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 18:22 +0100, Oliver Schad wrote: |
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>> No this doesn't offers a hole, when no service is running and routing |
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>> is |
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>> deactivated. So all services have to be started after iptables rules. |
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>> Same for routing. |
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> But this isn't quite what happens by default. Starting up I seem to get |
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> the network, then http-replicator, then iptables. Shutting down is |
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> worse: First iptables is turned off, then ntpd, sshd, http-replicator, |
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> "unmounting network file systems", then the network. So if there were a |
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> problem in these services they would be exposed. |
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> |
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> How do you control the order that programs are shutdown in gentoo? |
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Edit /etc/init.d/iptables and change dendency settings to |
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depend() { |
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before net |
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use logger |
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} |
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>> Iptables doesn't have to protect the TCP/IP stack but a network |
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>> behind |
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>> the host or services on that host. |
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> |
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> Could the network behind the host also be exposed in this small window? |
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No, because Routing is activated in /etc/init.d/iptables after loading |
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ruleset |
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Regards |
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Oli |
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