From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 27 19:22:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mark9.vladsempire.net (hutch-170.hutchtel.net [206.10.67.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9BFB37B42C for ; Sun, 27 May 2001 19:22:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jpaetzel@hutchtel.net) Received: from mark9.vladsempire.net (mark9.vladsempire.net [10.0.0.97]) by mark9.vladsempire.net (Postfix) with SMTP id A208B2AA; Sun, 27 May 2001 21:27:46 -0500 (CDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Josh Paetzel To: David Banning , David Banning , Lim Seng Chor Subject: Re: telnet security question Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 21:27:46 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] Cc: david@banning.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200105270809.f4R89ZB01609@d.tracker> <3B11271E.13364.8EF1A94@localhost> <20010527170228.B4092@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20010527170228.B4092@yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01052721274601.00863@mark9.vladsempire.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 On Sunday 27 May 2001 17:02, David Banning wrote: > I notice you didn't mention a firewall. What would be your reasons > for the points you suggested versus a firewall, which was someone > else's suggestion? > > On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 04:22:39PM +0800, Lim Seng Chor wrote: > > (1) Block the telnet packet to your destination host at your > > router/gateway Point #1 is assuming that you are running some sort of packet filtering software on your router/gateway. You can read that as "firewall". ;) Josh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message