> 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 _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list