From owner-freebsd-security Sun Feb 24 18:38: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from d188h80.mcb.uconn.edu (d188h80.mcb.uconn.edu [137.99.188.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 76FF837B405 for ; Sun, 24 Feb 2002 18:38:01 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 30716 invoked by uid 1001); 25 Feb 2002 02:37:32 -0000 Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 21:37:32 -0500 From: "Peter C. Lai" To: Ralph Huntington Cc: Matt Piechota , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Couple of concerns with default rc.firewall Message-ID: <20020224213732.A30666@cowbert.2y.net> Reply-To: peter.lai@uconn.edu References: <20020224110246.M17449-100000@cithaeron.argolis.org> <20020224210004.Q67313-100000@mohegan.mohawk.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020224210004.Q67313-100000@mohegan.mohawk.net>; from rjh@mohawk.net on Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 09:00:22PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org As another note, rc.firewall presents several preset options for your firewall, that of OPEN, CLIENT, or SIMPLE. I use a version of simple that allows more stuff through. I forgot about icmp until i realized i couldn't ping my box and some script which depended on the response time broke. I think allowing ICMP ought to be in either CLIENT or SIMPLE. On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 09:00:22PM -0500, Ralph Huntington wrote: > > I think the question is did the FreeBSD team intentionally (for the > > reasons of security) make the default install non-compliant with some > > RFCs (read: broken), or was it just not thought of? And second, > > should this be changed? I don't think the original poster was > > suggesting that deny ip from any to any shouldn't block anything, just > > asking should there be a rule in rc.firewall in the default install to > > allow ICMP so the machine is well behaved. > > Thank you. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message -- Peter C. Lai University of Connecticut Dept. of Residential Life | Programmer Dept. of Molecular and Cell Biology | Undergraduate Research Assistant http://cowbert.2y.net/ 860.427.4542 (Room) 860.486.1899 (Lab) 203.206.3784 (Cellphone) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message