Re: Linux Firewall

On 23/05/06 21:40, Grant wrote:

Not all of them ;) winxp does some sneaky 'call home' to odd
servers that I block at the 'real' linux based firewall with
deft (perhaps daft) use of dnsmasq.

You obviously know much more about these things than I do. I wasn't
aware this was going on. How can you tell? Anyway, ignorance is bliss.

a) don't start the services you not offering to public; b) with
iptables, deny all, then let in new connections to services you
offer from your site; c) if you're not offering services to the
public, let the modem/router do the firewalling for you (assuming
*DSL modem).

I do use the gateway router to firewall and want to limit the offered
services to a minimum. See my e-mail to John.

Mark
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