Hi, Carey! Thanks for your detailed answers, [snip] > DNS names and DNS servers being down, so, for example, I have a line: > ALL : 127.0.0.1 192.168.117. : ALLOW Good point, I switched to them.
[snip] > I'm actually using the IP firewall code in Linux 2.2.0-pre5 to provide > most of the protection to my system. My ipchains rules are as follows > (actually saved in /etc/ipchains.save and read by ipchains-restore in > /etc/init.d/network). Interesting, that's quite a new thought to me. I'm not a security expert at all of course. Do you have any web references or other relevant documents telling pro and cons of this technique, as opposed to TCP wrapper? [snip] Thanks, Sasha.