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Hi folks,

Am Di den  6. Dez 2016 um  0:07 schrieb Daniel Reurich:
> On 06/12/16 05:50, Lars Noodén wrote:
> > Where should we be commending the storage of iptables rules in Devuan
> > Jessie?
> 
> There should not be a default location.  It should be left to each
> firewall application to define.  This is particularly important as
> iptables has a competitor in nftables and likely to be deprecated at
> some point so we can't guarantee into the future that iptables will
> always exist.

Well, I think, there should be an advice.

Historical I use /var/lib/iptables. But that is only great when using
dynamic iptables. Present days I do them manually so /etc/something
might be better.

> Generally a well setup Linux system has no network connectable services
> running that aren't intended to be, in which case it's relatively
> resistant to hacking attempts.  This means firewall in a well secured
> network is generally not necessary or desirable.  The only instance I'd
> consider a workstation firewall is a laptop connecting to untrusted
> networks regularly.

Well, except avahi, cups, samba, ntp, rpcbind and some other bad
designed tools that default listen on 0.0.0.0 and that are pulled in
with a common linux desktop installation.

Regards
   Klaus
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