On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 05:31:31PM -0400, Ben Bogart - FMPM/F1999 wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I've been a touch peroccupied with security since one of my boxes was 
> using a hole in the 1.4.2 nameserver to relay spam. At home I have only 
> one machine, is the machine that is running the firewall software as 
> secure as those machines behind it? ie is a firewall package only helpful 
> if it resides on a seperate machine than the one you are trying to protect?

If you only have one machine a firewall package won't help much.
Just properly configure it, turning off any daemon you don't need
(from /etc/rc.conf and /etc/inetd.conf) and it should be secure.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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