On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 18:48, Jim C wrote: > Jack Coates wrote: > > I know the shorewall question can be resolved, but as KevinO points out > > it shouldn't be resolved by someone who's not fully aware of the issues > > at stake. > > > > In the last five days I've gotten nearly a thousand denied attempts to > > relay spam mail through my server clogging up my logs right now in > > > You've also not considered that as a graduate student, I might literally > have more important things to do. Security is on my hit list but > unfortunately it is not at the top. Graduation is. ;-) I do use > firewalls on my some of my clients that are windows based but the > learning curve for linux based firewalls prevents. >
actually, I have considered this, which is why I recommended that you just buy a firewall. If you want plug and play convenience, it comes in a cellophane-wrapped box. > I tell you what. :-) If it concerns you so much I will be happy to use > any configuration you are willing to provide that allows samba on the > intranet and blocks it from the internet and also does internet > connection sharing and SSH/SFTP. Eventually I would like to use tcp > wrappers for this sort of thing, though. > and I also recommended Monmotha for a reason :-) It's a lot easier than shorewall because it only battens down the external interface. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...
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