dont bother run a firewall, just look around what services you run, if you open ports to all your services the firewall only takes cpu, you could use nmap, a port scanner to see open ports, and be sure to run the latest version of the daemons, to keep secure, for example, i run pureftpd, its a fairly secure ftp daemon, and the newest openssh and apache2 should be secure too, so i dont have a firewall for that, but then i installed nfsd, which is known to be "not so secure", so now i run iptables blocking for everything exept ftp, ssh and apache from outside, and from LAN i have everything open.
On Sun, 2003-11-23 at 03:40, SMS WebMaster wrote: > Hi > > I have only one PC (laptop) and my internet connection is a dial-up so I > am not online all the time. > > I don't think I need a firewall because I am not running any servers > (only apache and only the local IP 127.0.0.1 can access it ). > > Some friend told me that I must run a firewall to protect my PC , Do you > think I have to do that ? > > Thank you -- Regards, Redeeman () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ - against microsoft attachments -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
