Re: firewall for a client
--- JM <jmm19@humboldt.edu> wrote:
> All this brings me to think about the program "portsentry" what is the
> rationale of protecting your box if all those ports are advertised to
> the
> net? Yes, one can set it up to reject incoming connections, but the port
> is open...
>
There is also hosts.{allow,deny} and tcpwrapers. These don't prevent
TCP/IP exploits, but thay can protect your service from unwanted personel.
This could lead to an application explot being only avalible to a fue
users.
>
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> -JM. ?Estos días azules y este sol de la infancia ?(Antonio
> Machado-1939)
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