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| From: | Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | [gentoo-user] Re: Do you block outbound ports? | ||
| Date: | Sat, 20 Aug 2011 19:13:01 | ||
| Message-Id: | j2p0rg$jjr$1@dough.gmane.org | ||
| In Reply to: | [gentoo-user] Do you block outbound ports? by Grant |
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| 1 | On 08/20/2011 08:38 PM, Grant wrote: |
| 2 | > I like the policy of blocking all ports in and out with a firewall and |
| 3 | > only opening the ones you need. Bittorrent makes that difficult since |
| 4 | > it connects out to unpredictable ports. Do you block outbound ports |
| 5 | > with a firewall or only inbound? |
| 6 | |
| 7 | I block neither in nor outbound. I don't run any kind of firewall |
| 8 | because its whole point is interfering with network traffic :-P |