Re: Safety while network install.
On Wed 23 Nov 2011 at 11:57:57 +0000, Curt wrote:
> einstein:/home/curty# lsof -i
> COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
> cupsd 1778 root 5u IPv6 43230 0t0 TCP localhost:ipp (LISTEN)
> cupsd 1778 root 7u IPv4 43231 0t0 TCP localhost:ipp (LISTEN)
> dhclient 1814 root 6u IPv4 6366 0t0 UDP *:bootpc
> <snipped the rest--browser(chrome) and slrn>.
>
> I don't want to run a firewall because I don't what I'm doing and am too
> ignorant to set up cupsd and dhclient securely. I think I'm running cups
> securely. If I should do something about dhclient (udp, not tcp) please
> be so kind as to tell me what.
You don't want to run a firewall because it will be of no benefit to
you. The CUPS daemon will only accept print jobs from the machine the
printer is connected to. dhclient is what its name says - a client. It
doesn't listen for any connections, so no need to do anything about it -
unless you don't trust the server it makes requests to. It won't be used
if you set up a static address for the interface.
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