Re: Border protection for Fedora

2010-12-12 Thread Tim
S Mathias: Firstly, please do NOT post in HTML. Amongst all the other annoyances, it makes it difficult to quote content when we're replying. Now, onto your email... > > I have a small, simple firewall "script": > http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=NChRyqVu Be careful about blocking ICMP if you do

Re: Border protection for Fedora

2010-12-12 Thread Genes MailLists
On 12/12/2010 05:51 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: >> Aside - I believe privoxy has been largely superceded by polipo >> which has several advantages over privoxy (including user config >> support). >> >> Polipo is packaged for fedora too .. :-) > > Odd. I don't see anything off hand in it's docs abo

Re: Border protection for Fedora

2010-12-12 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sun, 12 Dec 2010 16:10:50 -0500 Genes MailLists wrote: > On 12/12/2010 03:01 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > > > > You only need a proxy if there is something you would like to do > > with http or the like, for example caching for better speed, or > > filtering out ads and such. See squid and pri

Re: Border protection for Fedora

2010-12-12 Thread Genes MailLists
On 12/12/2010 03:01 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > You only need a proxy if there is something you would like to do with > http or the like, for example caching for better speed, or filtering > out ads and such. See squid and privoxy for those. Aside - I believe privoxy has been largely supercede

Re: Border protection for Fedora

2010-12-12 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sun, 12 Dec 2010 05:30:23 -0800 (PST) S Mathias wrote: > I have a small, simple firewall "script": > http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=NChRyqVu > > Can I ask the mailing list, that look at it for a few moments, and > sort out the: > >  - unnecessary things in it [if it contains any, like are th

Re: Border protection for Fedora

2010-12-12 Thread stan
On Sun, 12 Dec 2010 05:30:23 -0800 (PST) S Mathias wrote: > I have a small, simple firewall "script": > http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=NChRyqVu Seems OK. I've found through experience that limiting outgoing connections will sometimes cause issues. I suspect it is because the applications are mo

Re: Border protection for Fedora

2010-12-12 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 05:30:23 -0800, S Mathias wrote: > I have a small, simple firewall "script": > http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=NChRyqVu > > Can I ask the mailing list, that look at it for a few moments, and sort out > the: > >  - unnecessary things in it [if it contains any, like are

Border protection for Fedora

2010-12-12 Thread S Mathias
I have a small, simple firewall "script": http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=NChRyqVu Can I ask the mailing list, that look at it for a few moments, and sort out the:  - unnecessary things in it [if it contains any, like are there solutions for write multiple destination ip's in one line?]  - missi