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Re: My first firewall



On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 11:26:51AM -0400, James wrote:
> > In addition to plain ole iptables masquerade, I'd personally 
> > install squid, ntp, and bind.  You may as well use squid to 
> > get some benefit out of the 8 gig hard drive.  "Obviously" 
> > you want to dpkg --purge telnetd, etc.
> 
> BIND has been statistically one of the largest *nix exploits.  I would
> not recommend installing it on a firewall.

Well - if all you want to use it for is dns-cacheing then restrict
it to internal-only access and trust your users.

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