From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 27 1: 3:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta6.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (mta6.srv.hcvlny.cv.net [167.206.5.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4220B37B423 for ; Sun, 27 May 2001 01:03:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from trini0@optonline.net) Received: from optonline.net (ool-18be012f.dyn.optonline.net [24.190.1.47]) by mta6.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.0 Patch 2 (built Dec 14 2000)) with ESMTP id <0GDZ00F0RI7N84@mta6.srv.hcvlny.cv.net> for questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 27 May 2001 03:59:47 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 03:59:12 -0400 From: Gerard Samuel Subject: Re: telnet security question To: david@banning.com Cc: FreeBSD Questions Message-id: <3B10B3D0.19BB16BF@optonline.net> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en References: <200105270809.f4R89ZB01609@d.tracker> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Its called a firewall. Deny incoming on port 21 on the outside interface and let the inside roam.... Its easier that what we told you earlier, but I hope you could trust your insiders. David Banning wrote: > Is there a way to allow users on our local area network to telnet > into the server, but block telnet access to the server from the internet? > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message