Re: [gentoo-user] Protecting my server against an individual

[Ryan Tandy]

Alexander Skwar wrote:
> Ryan Tandy wrote:
>
>> you're running a firewall of some kind (and you'd be crazy not to for
>> any publically accessible box),
>
> Actually, I'd disagree. If only the necessary publicly accessible services
> are running on a box, what good should a "firewal" (I suppose you mean
> packet filter, like iptables) do? The only useful measure I can think about,
> is to do rate limiting. But what else?
>
> Alexander Skwar

Point taken, and agreed with.  I retract the "crazy not to" part; 
however, some netfilter/iptables features can be very handy in limiting 
access to said services (e.g. dropping all SSH connections not coming 
from your IP).

I guess sometimes my Windows days do come back to haunt me... ;)
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