From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Feb 26 14:52:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (rwcrmhc51.attbi.com [204.127.198.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5D8437B417 for ; Tue, 26 Feb 2002 14:52:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from blossom.cjclark.org ([12.234.91.48]) by rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020226225227.ORTJ2626.rwcrmhc51.attbi.com@blossom.cjclark.org>; Tue, 26 Feb 2002 22:52:27 +0000 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1QMqQ960006; Tue, 26 Feb 2002 14:52:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 14:52:26 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Eric Anderson Cc: Cliff Sarginson , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new FreeBSD mailing list Message-ID: <20020226145226.X52727@blossom.cjclark.org> References: <3C7AFCED.ADDE60EE@centtech.com> <20020226093250.A1369@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> <3C7BEF25.C1EEB8AD@centtech.com> <20020226204420.GA2629@raggedclown.net> <3C7BF7A4.E571BEFA@centtech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3C7BF7A4.E571BEFA@centtech.com>; from anderson@centtech.com on Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 03:01:24PM -0600 X-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 03:01:24PM -0600, Eric Anderson wrote: > Cliff Sarginson wrote: > > > > I am not sure how much traffic such a list would generate. > > > > In terms of new lists, I suggested long ago, that the number of > > questions on filtering/firewalls/nat and all points east generated on -questions > > could easily justify it's own mailing list. Since this is clearly > > one of the most confusing, most ill-understood, and frankly > > insufficiently documented areas of FreeBSD .. and yet one of it's most > > important. I have twice suggested to Crist Clark he write a book on it.. > > I think he told me he was once approached to do so. But sadly no such > > book exists. There are lots of bits of paper flying around the net with > > recipes, suggestions, partial explanations etc. But there is no-where > > a coherent in-depth discussion of it all. > > > > I must be missing your point, since there IS a -security list, which contains > those items. And there are -ipfw and -net for the things Cliff brought up. -- Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message