Re: network working one way only?

[richard lyons <richard@the-place.net>]

On Monday 21 June 2004 20:12, John Summerfield wrote:
[...]
> I perfer the host command for most things: dig's report takes me a
> week to decifer!
[...]
Now I`ve tried it, I am inclined to agree.  Somehow, I had remained 
ignorant of it until just now.
[...]
> Remember that one way to breach a firewall is to send some email to a
> Windows box on the LAN. There's always another unpatched
> vulnerability.

Good point.  Up till now, we`ve not had samba set up so the windoze 
laptops have only been able to talk to the adsl, but we intend to set 
it up.
[...]
> I see two alternatives. I'll assume that you have some firewall
> package installed and setup.
> 1. Discover how to disable it. Likely there's a symlink in /etc/rc2.d
> that has some relevance.
> 2. Remove it. Probably there's a part of it in /etc/init.d that you
> might spot. Go through the contents of that directory and learn what
> everything there is.
> 3. I can't count:-)  Identify the package and configure it to grant
> the access you want.
>
> I prefer the third. Mr Bracegirdle's approach has some merit.

Thanks for all the help.

-- 
richard