On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 06:41, Ed Wilts wrote: > On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 11:42:38PM -0600, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: > > At 19:57 9/7/2003 -0500, you wrote: > > >And, you should *always* forward port 80 to something, even a > > >non-existent host, to disallow any hopes that somebody that somebody can > > >talk to it from the outside. > > > > Perhaps that should be "...especially if possible to a non-existent host..."? > > It's always possible to forward to a non-existent host, but some people > actually run web servers behind their Linksys firewalls, so they'll > likely have port 80 forwarded to the real webserver. My point is that > port 80 should not stop at the Linksys - it must be forwarded off the > box to somewhere. It doesn't matter where. >
I am amazed and dismayed that these devices even allow access from the outside. Bret -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
