Re: [SLUG] weird web site viewer

From: Eben King (eben1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Sun Apr 23 2006 - 00:36:06 EDT


On Sun, 23 Apr 2006, steve szmidt wrote:

> On Saturday 22 April 2006 22:04, Eben King wrote:
>> On Sat, 22 Apr 2006, steve szmidt wrote:
>>> On Saturday 22 April 2006 15:41, Eben King wrote:
>>>>
>>>> So I just added
>>>> "thttpd : 208.181.115.2" to /etc/hosts.deny, and haven't heard from him
>>>> since about 2:30 pm on 13 April.
>>>
>>> I still prefer using the firewall as it's a cleaner cut. It's the first
>>> line of defense. hosts is a second line which it does not hurt to do too.
>>
>> I don't have a firewall. I tried using the router, but it doesn't have
>> such a (useful) thing. NAT keeps most things out, but I explicitely let
>> http in. :-( I figure running as few things as I can get away with lets
>> me get acceptable performance from a computer after it's deemed "too slow"
>> by most people.
>
> Well, I'd argue that you Do have a firewall. On your computer. You have port
> forwarding to your cmputer. Use the firewall and the hosts.allow/deny files.

Well yeah, hosts_access is sort of a firewall. But didn't you make a
distinction a few lines up, in

>>> I still prefer using the firewall as it's a cleaner cut. It's the first
>>> line of defense. hosts is a second line which it does not hurt to do too.

?

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