Re: Why not have firewall rules by default?
On 23/01/08 08:29 -0700, Michael Loftis wrote:
It's better to leave the service disabled, or even better, completely
uninstalled from a security standpoint, and from a DoS standpoint as well.
The Linux kernel isn't very efficient at processing firewall rules. Newer
I thought it was very efficient in doing so. YMMV.
This much does exist. invoke-rc.d iptables save --- i'm not sure what
package the /etc/init.d/iptables script is in, seems to me like it was part
of the same package that provided the binaries.
Didn't that get removed?
regards, Rolf
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