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Re: WEB-Page: Debian based Firewall




	Henry Hollenberg     speed@barney.iamerica.net 


On 27 Feb 1998, Christian Leutloff wrote:

> Michael Meskes <meskes@topsystem.de> writes:
> 
> > Henry Hollenberg writes:
> > > > As for the firewall, I personally think a mailer like sendmail is the
> > > > better choice.
> > > 
> > > Isn't smail the standard Debian mailer?
> > 
> > Maybe. But I still prefer sendmail. :-)
> 
> this sounds much better:
> 
> Package: ssmtp
> Version: 2.24-3
> Priority: extra
> Section: mail
> Maintainer: Hugo Haas <hugo@debian.org>
> Depends: libc6
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Uh, Oh  what does this mean....would we have to wait for Debian 2.0 to use
this?

hgh


> Conflicts: mail-transport-agent
> Provides: mail-transport-agent
> Replaces: mail-transport-agent, exim, sendmail, smail, qmail, zmailer
> Architecture: i386
> Filename: dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/mail/ssmtp_2.24-3.deb
> Size: 14470
> MD5sum: e439c7a57cfc7f2ebcda9882266ac24e
> Description: Extremely simple MTA to get mail off the system to a Mailhub
>  A secure, effective and simple way of getting mail off a system to your
>  mailhost. No suid-binaries or other dangerous things. No mail spool to poke
>  around in. No daemons running in the background. Mail is simply forwarded to
>  the configured mailhost. Extremely easy configuration.
>  .
>  WARNING: the above is all it does. It does not receive mail, expand
>  aliases or manage a queue.  That belongs on a mailhub with a system
>  administrator.
> installed-size: 36
>                         
> and it's small!
>   
> 
> 
> Henry Hollenberg <speed@barney.iamerica.net> writes:
> 
> > On 27 Feb 1998, Christian Leutloff wrote:
> > 
> > > Henry Hollenberg <speed@barney.iamerica.net> writes:
> > > 
> > > > Here is my firewall "plan".
> > > 
> > > sounds good to me.
> > > 
> > > Btw. shouldn't we set up a debian-firewall mailing list!? It's very
> > > easy to do so, but I've forgotten the exect procedure. 
>  
> > Yes,  and if there is a way to mirror it to Hubert's web page that would
> > be great as well....so folks can easily join in.
> 
> contact webmaster@debian.org
>  
> > Should this be a Debian sponsored mail list?
> 
> yes, that's the easiest way.
> 
> > Re: CD-ROM - won't we be using the standard distribution cdrom from
> > Debian?  If possible I thought our goal should be to build this thing
> > using all Debian packages.
> 
> I would *run* the System from a CD-ROM - nobody can manipulate the
> binaries ;-)
>  
> > This package configures your Linux box as a firewall. You can define
>                               ^^^ GNU/Linux please, 
> or better Debian GNU/Linux ;-)
> 
> [ lots of good stuff deleted ]
> 
> Bye
>   Christian
> 
> -- 
> Christian Leutloff, Aachen, Germany         leutloff@sundancer.oche.de  
>       http://www.oche.de/~leutloff/         leutloff@debian.org      
> 
>             Debian GNU/Linux - http://www.de.debian.org/
> 
> 


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