Re: hurd does NOT need /hurd
On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 11:56:48AM -0400, Nathan Hawkins wrote:
> He's out of date WRT current practice. And some networks have more than
> one gateway, in which case it can be desirable to administer on the
> hosts with the relevent services.
Wouldn't it be more secure to use two (or at least one) dedicated
firewalls on each way out of the LAN?
> People also regularly use "firewalling" features to do things that
> aren't really security related. I see people using IP filtering in
> combination with routing, NAT, and even QOS.
Al those features are useful. Nobody is claiming that the Hurd shouldn't
have these features, or shouldn't have firewall features. The Hurd should
have everything anybody ever wants ;)
> >FWIW, Debian GNU/Hurd will have ways to secure the network and services,
> >too. It might even have firewall features. But does the first version have
> >firewall features? Maybe. This depends on a lot of things, and all of
> >them
> >are completely unrelated to how important firewalling really is.
>
> This is a good point. The first release of the Hurd can reasonably be
> expected to have limitations and missing functionality.
>
> That doesn't mean Debian should release it as a stable architecture at
> that point. ;-)
Well, the first release of the Hurd happened 1997. I wouldn't want it to
be released as stable by Debian, no, not at all :)
Thanks,
Marcus
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