Once upon a time, Adam Williamson <[email protected]> said: > On most laptops, however, which are the most common types of system sold > today, a firewall is very definitely needed when you're connecting to > hotel networks, public wifi access points...
The only thing you need a firewall by default for is to prevent services that are listening on the network from being accessible. The better solution is to stop having services listen on the network by default. This was done for sendmail many years ago; why hasn't it been done for other things, such as rpcbind (and RPC services), cups, etc.? These daemons should bind to localhost only unless otherwise configured. -- Chris Adams <[email protected]> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
