On Mon, 06 Nov 2000 00:32:29 + (UTC), Pollywog said:
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> On 06-Nov-2000 Christopher W. Aiken wrote:
> >
>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
On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 10:37:56PM +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote:
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> I too will in a near future get access to a DSL service. Excuse my
> ignorance, but is a firewall really necessary if I only got one
> computer? In the firewall HOWTO one can read that
Well, I'll say this. I'm on a dial-up and I've
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 11:08:57PM -0600, Chewie wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 07:13:25PM -0500, Christopher W. Aiken wrote:
> > 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 min
On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 07:13:25PM -0500, Christopher W. Aiken wrote:
> 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
Try going to www.smoothwall.org. It's a firewall distribution. My local LUG
just had a class on how to install it. It is *amazingly* easy to configure.
The only catch is it "takes over the system" so you need an extra computer.
The beauty is it'll run on a 386 with 8 meg (so the web site claim
On 06-Nov-2000 Christopher W. Aiken wrote:
>
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?
>
It is not enough, because most services d
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