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On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> I like the policy of blocking all ports in and out with a firewall and |
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> only opening the ones you need. Bittorrent makes that difficult since |
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> it connects out to unpredictable ports. Do you block outbound ports |
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> with a firewall or only inbound? |
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I don't block anything outbound, but my ISP does (mostly MS-stuff that |
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I don't care about). I do, however, occasionally block all outgoing |
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just to see what the logs show, so I'm aware of what's happening. But |
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I don't actively monitor that outbound traffic. |
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I block everything inbound and only open what's specifically needed. I |
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use denyhosts and fail2ban to block bad guys from all ports. |
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