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From: Alexander Skwar <listen@×××××××××××××××.name>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Protecting my server against an individual
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2006 07:59:20
Message-Id: 44AB6C6A.9040008@mid.message-center.info
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Protecting my server against an individual by Ryan Tandy
1 Ryan Tandy wrote:
2
3 > you're running a firewall of some kind (and you'd be crazy not to for
4 > any publically accessible box),
5
6 Actually, I'd disagree. If only the necessary publicly accessible services
7 are running on a box, what good should a "firewal" (I suppose you mean
8 packet filter, like iptables) do? The only useful measure I can think about,
9 is to do rate limiting. But what else?
10
11 Alexander Skwar
12 --
13 The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and
14 robbers there will be.
15 -- Lao Tsu
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17 gentoo-user@g.o mailing list

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