Re: Open ports

[Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>]

[John Summerfield]
> After my minimal install, I find some ports open to the public. I don't 
> think they should be open by default  to anyone.
> 
> They're all in the inetd package, any my preference is to have all inet 
> services disabled by default.

I agree totally.  We close these services in the debian-edu custom
debian distro.  We comment out the discard, daytime and time service
for all hosts, and smtp for every host except the server.