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Date:      Tue, 19 Nov 2002 10:28:05 +0200
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        Pierrick Brossin <pbrossin@swissgeeks.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Easy Server
Message-ID:  <20021119082804.GB15020@gothmog.gr>
In-Reply-To: <1037693245.3dd9f13d570f2@www.swissgeeks.com>
References:  <3DD7B0DE.2060003@swissgeeks.com> <20021117234646.GB60554@wantadilla.lemis.com> <1037609095.3dd8a8875fa8a@www.swissgeeks.com> <20021118215343.GV60554@wantadilla.lemis.com> <3DD96FEB.7040301@swissgeeks.com> <20021119075137.GC9243@gothmog.gr> <1037693245.3dd9f13d570f2@www.swissgeeks.com>

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On 2002-11-19 09:07, Pierrick Brossin <pbrossin@swissgeeks.com> wrote:
> Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> > Then don't enable one.  A badly configured firewall is arguably worse
> > than no firewall at all.
>
> wow no firewall is such a nice idea.

It's not a bad idea, on a machine that doesn't run services that
nobody uses locally and has properly configured access controls with
tcpwrappers or similar tools for those services that are running.

> just kidding.. your server is then open to anyone.
> don't you have a firewall `?!

I do, but it's not the firewall that protects services like named that
are running.  Well, at least not *only* the firewall.


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