Re: Required firewall support
On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 13:52:23 +0100, Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
wrote:
>* Marc Haber:
>> I am routinely running systems without any packet filtering capability
>> on the network, and they are perfectly able to cope. They just only
>> accept network connections for needed services.
>
>This is a bit dangerous because any invocation of "apt-get install" or
>"apt-get upgrade" can start new server daemons.
I do not do that when I am directly on the 'net. otoh, policy-rc.d
exists, but is a little clumsy to use these days (remedy is in NEW).
Greetings
Marc
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