[plug] Security

[Christian]

John Summerfield wrote:
>
> It's wise to apply all updates relevant to your system. For added security
> you can also firewall yourself with ipchains (2.2 kernels and patched 2.0)
> or ipfwadm (2.0 only). May require you rebuild your kernel with the
> firewall support.

It's questionable whether firewalling off non-existent services will
have any positive effect on the system's security.  The only situation
where it might really be worthwhile would be if the service could be
inadvertently switched back on.

Regards,

Christian.

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