On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 05:52:12PM +0000, Tyler Smith wrote: > Now that I have nothing listening to the outside world, do I still > need a firewall? I have been using firestarter, but not consistently. >
I look at a firewall as icing on the cake. If you reject and log local to net, anything trying to go out that you haven't configured gives you something to trace. For example, I recently put etch onto my 486 and installed ntp. Between the time I installed it and when I configured it to look to my main box, it came configured to try to access the debian ntp pool. Those packets were rejected but I go an email from my main box warning me about it. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]