> At 5/7/2002 08:19 AM -0400, you wrote:
>>He sees no problem with leaving his system without a firewall, he
>>leaves open port 53 (give me one reason why a home user would open
>>DNS...of course without a firewall he has no way to close it)
>
> FYI, in named.conf in the initial directives:
>
> listen-on { 127.0.0.1; 192.168.0.1; };
>
> where of course 192.168.0.1 is the IP address of this machine pointing
> to  the internal network.
>
>
> --
> Rodolfo J. Paiz
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]

I stand corrected...again!  Personally, I'm a little (!) paranoid about
security after watching all those intrusion attempt log messages showing
up daily.  I use the listen-on command AND have a firewall AND check for
updates daily AND I'm still nervous.
Gerry
-- 
"The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne" Chaucer




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