From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 19 0:28:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00AB037B401 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 00:28:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A4DD43E88 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 00:28:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from gothmog.gr (patr530-a040.otenet.gr [212.205.215.40]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gAJ8S9qD025859; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 10:28:10 +0200 (EET) Received: from gothmog.gr (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gAJ8S72a018139; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 10:28:08 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by gothmog.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gAJ8S6QR018138; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 10:28:07 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 10:28:05 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Pierrick Brossin Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Easy Server Message-ID: <20021119082804.GB15020@gothmog.gr> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1037693245.3dd9f13d570f2@www.swissgeeks.com> 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 2002-11-19 09:07, Pierrick Brossin 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message