[plug] Security

[Greg Mildenhall]

On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, Christian wrote:
> John Summerfield wrote:
> > 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.
I think he's planning on firewalling services which do exist. There are
plenty of things you might want running on your system, but not accessible
from the outside world. A kernel packet filter or a tcpwrapper rule would
work well for that.

-Greg