My "Mom & Pop" phone company had an insert in my latest phone bill that indicated they would be providing DSL service in the very near future. A friend of mine suggested that if I get the DSL service that I should set up a firewall to protect myself. He also suggested that I start with a page on the net (TrinityOS at http://24.7.216.129:8192/) that has some basic ipchain configurations. I don't understand any of this stuff, but the TrinityOS pages had a 100 line rc.firewall script and a 1300 line ipchains config file. Is all of this really necessary? Why cant I just set my "/etc/hosts.deny" file to "ALL: PARANOID", comment out the "telnet" "ftp" and "http" lines out of my "/etc/inetd.conf" file? Wouldn't that be enough protection for my system?
-- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: Debian 2.2 GNU/Linux
