From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 19 1: 6:26 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 B053837B401 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 01:06:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C7AB43E91 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 01:06:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 6EC2651903; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 19:36:21 +1030 (CST) Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 19:36:21 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Pierrick Brossin Cc: Giorgos Keramidas , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Easy Server Message-ID: <20021119090621.GK57946@wantadilla.lemis.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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1037693245.3dd9f13d570f2@www.swissgeeks.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 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 Tuesday, 19 November 2002 at 9:07:25 +0100, Pierrick Brossin 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. > > just kidding.. your server is then open to anyone. > > don't you have a firewall `?! I think you're missing the point. If you don't know what you're doing, don't do it. If you want to run a server, you can't take a default configuration. If there's something in the Red Hat setup that you particularly liked, please tell us about it. But so far you've just said "I want it better". So do we. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message