On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 06:33:30PM -0500, Daniel Sterling wrote:
> Adding a firewall will only help things, and it certainly can't hurt.
This is generally true, but an improperly configured firewall can be
worse than no firewall. If it creates new vulnerabilities, or if it is
obtrusive and causes
X in Debian by default uses -nolisten tcp, why is it open?
Also, read the XSecurity man page-- just because the port is open does
not mean it is accessible.
However, you should as a rule disable anything that listens to the
internet if you don't need it. You should also, if possible, use
hos
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