Re: secure installation
On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 17:11:54 -0700
Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com> wrote:
[snip]
> My perspective is influenced by the fact that all attempts to help
> debug Linux networking failures have to start with "What does
> /sbin/iptables L, run as root, say?" and "What's in /etc/hosts.allow and
> /etc/hosts.deny?" -- because people shooting at their pedal extremities
> with those, without any idea what they're doing, is a leading cause of
> networking problems.
<grin>
I wish I had a dollar for every time that a frustrating connectivity
failure on my network turned out to be due to renaming or adding an
interface or something similar and neglecting to reconfigure
shorewall ...
> Cheers, English is essentially Plattdeutsch as spoken
> Rick Moen by a Frisian pretending to be French.
Celejar
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