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Date:      Mon, 22 Apr 2002 02:40:54 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com>
To:        Taylor Dondich <thexder@lvcm.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD LIST <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.Org>
Subject:   Re: Fw: A problem with people reaching my server
Message-ID:  <20020422022623.I28349-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net>
In-Reply-To: <000701c1e751$8bc204c0$0d1cea18@penguin>

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On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Taylor Dondich wrote:
> yes, but like I said, I have no firewall options enabled in rc.conf, wouldn't that allow people to at least access httpd on the box?  Or does freebsd now by default not allow it?
> Taylor Dondich

Nobody can access "httpd" unless you have "httpd" running.

man inetd

If you are truly concerned about security, I suggest you read up in the
www.freebsd.org handbook about the firewall options in /etc/rc.conf

--
Peter Leftwich
President & Founder
Video2Video Services
Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA
+1-413-403-9555

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Peter Leftwich" <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com>
> To: "Taylor Dondich" <thexder@lvcm.com>
> Cc: "FreeBSD LIST" <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.Org>
> Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 7:56 PM
> Subject: Re: Fw: A problem with people reaching my server
>
> > On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Taylor Dondich wrote:
> > > I don't believe so.  FIREWALL options are not enabled in rc.conf,
> however, I do notice as when I'm shutting down the server, it's saving firewall states. How do I check to see if it is running, and how to disable that from happening?
> > >  Taylor Dondich
> >
> > From /etc/rc.conf
> > firewall_enable="YES"            # Set to YES to enable firewall functionality
> > firewall_script="/etc/rc.firewall" # Which script to run to set up the firewall
> > firewall_type="client"          # Firewall type (see /etc/rc.firewall)
> >
> > There are choices such as simple, open, client, etc - mine is actually set to NO because I found this all too confusing (setting "internal" IPs and configuring /etc/rc.firewall to my specs).  Instead, I learned as much as I could about /etc/inetd.conf and have enabled syslogd to log LOTS of stuff, such as rude people portscanning me :)
> > Oh and the choices go on in /etc/rc.conf
> > firewall_quiet="YES"            # Set to YES to suppress rule display
> > firewall_logging="YES"          # Set to YES to enable events logging
> > firewall_flags=""               # Flags passed to ipfw when type is a file
> >
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "Kent Stewart" <kstewart@owt.com>
> > > > To: "Taylor Dondich" <thexder@lvcm.com>
> > > > Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
> > > > Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 3:48 PM
> > > > Subject: Re: A problem with people reaching my server
> > > > > Taylor Dondich wrote:
> > > > > > Okay, so I've thought I configured my server correctly, but I must
> be missing something. People can ping my server just fine, however trying to access any services (web, smtp, pop3) are futile.  Yet, they can ping it. There isn't a kern_securelevel, so I dunno if that'd be it (I don't even know if that'd be related).  However, I can access the services just fine on the network here. It just seems that anyone outside my network can't access it. Any ideas?  Things I can provide to help figure it out?
> > > > > Are you running something like ipfw or some other firewall.  You could have some parameters there that need adjusting.
> > > > > Kent Stewart of Richland, WA
> > > > > http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
> > What do you mean by problem with people "reaching" your server?  What port?


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