From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 22 02:10:26 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC3C616A41F for ; Sun, 22 Jan 2006 02:10:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsdworld@gmail.com) Received: from xproxy.gmail.com (xproxy.gmail.com [66.249.82.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EDF043D45 for ; Sun, 22 Jan 2006 02:10:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsdworld@gmail.com) Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id t12so503745wxc for ; Sat, 21 Jan 2006 18:10:25 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:subject:to:content-type:date:message-id:mime-version:x-mailer:content-transfer-encoding:from; b=gkz+Oa8ys6piKMFS9yywUrmz+5ZgnuJLWtnzxRTuZXkFOIVE3R/QGurvvfwWE+0kjapTTquHJ+M0jb6jRwFutVhcux9mWl1buj9/SRgED7lu398tLtf6qyOeB2wjxa9rxSxc9zJXrKp/INI+mYJ7JkBIem6mo4G8a+YViEAfhfg= Received: by 10.70.11.4 with SMTP id 4mr4316540wxk; Sat, 21 Jan 2006 18:10:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.0.3? ( [72.226.224.84]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id h15sm5216493wxd.2006.01.21.18.10.24; Sat, 21 Jan 2006 18:10:24 -0800 (PST) To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 21:11:08 -0500 Message-Id: <1137895868.789.4.camel@7Current.FreeBSDWorld.NET> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.2.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Benjamin D Adams Subject: FreeBSD 5.4 with no Firewall? X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 02:10:27 -0000 I'm moving my server to a colocation. Its a web-server (Apache 2.0) on FreeBSD 5.4. Should I get a gigabyte firewall first?(I plan on getting one soon) How important? What can I do to help secure the OS its self? Any built in programs I should install first? Thanks for any Help Ben