From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 4 14:27: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from deluge.umist.ac.uk (deluge.umist.ac.uk [130.88.120.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0116C37B718 for ; Sun, 4 Mar 2001 14:27:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cez@cds220.halls.umist.ac.uk) Received: from cds220.halls.umist.ac.uk ([130.88.161.220]) by deluge.umist.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.14 #1) id 14Zgxx-0007eq-00; Sun, 04 Mar 2001 22:27:01 +0000 Received: (from cez@localhost) by cds220.halls.umist.ac.uk (8.11.2/8.11.2) id f24MQxx38459; Sun, 4 Mar 2001 22:26:59 GMT (envelope-from cez) Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 22:26:59 +0000 From: Ceri Storey To: Rick Knebel Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Security Message-ID: <20010304222659.D50160@cds220.halls.umist.ac.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from rknebel@uplink.net on Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 04:52:10PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 04:52:10PM -0500, Rick Knebel wrote: > Hi, > > I want to run a little home server with mail,web,ftp and telnet servers > running. > > This is rather vague , but can you do this and still be secure ? yes - what you want to do is firewall off the insecure services (mail, ftp, telnet etc) from the outside world, and only have them visible to the internal network. -- Ceri Storey http://pkl.net/~cez/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message