"firewall" in the default install (was: Release update)
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- Subject: "firewall" in the default install (was: Release update)
- From: Marc Haber <mh+debian-devel@zugschlus.de>
- Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 08:00:36 +0200
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On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 16:41:02 +0200, Andreas Barth
<aba@not.so.argh.org> wrote:
>If we consider installing some firewall script by default, than this
>should only be done by d-i, and not by a "normal" upgrade. Via this
>way, there is no risk for existing setups, and it can quite easily be
>disabled. If this easy firewall is just some new package, than it's
>also quite easy to enhance existing installations with it.
Yes, but the post I have been replying to suggested to place the
Debian default rules in the iptables package. I'd consider _that_ a
bad misfeature.
Greetings
Marc
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