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Re: not using debian as firewall!



On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 04:07:12PM -0400, Jonathan P Tomer wrote:
> > Err -- any reason you can't disable these services on Debian too?
> > Not running inetd would kill most of them.
> 
> you can disable them, but not running inetd is a bad idea since that
> provides more basic services as well (notably, i think it does ping). better
> to just remove all the lines in inetd.conf for non-internal services.

No, the kernel does ping.


Hamish
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