On Sunday 23 April 2006 06:27, steve szmidt wrote:
> On Sunday 23 April 2006 01:23, Eben King wrote:
> > Yup, iptables is flexible and powerful. But if hosts.deny can do what I
> > need (i.e. stop this user from getting web pages), I see no need to set
> > it up. It's just a residential machine.
>
> One more note. There is no such thing as just a residential machine. There
> are machines who one does not care if it is hacked twice a day and wiped
> out twice a week, and those where you for whatever the reason, do not want
> to have to waste time on.
Absolutely.
While we're at it, why don't we set up a dedicated firewall on a router, a
deny by default policy, ...
--Jason Boxman http://edseek.com/ - Linux and FOSS stuff
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