Re: [expert] Question on Firewalling

2003-05-31 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 13:38, Jack Coates wrote: > google "door knocking firewall" or similar, and xinetd is your friend. > Realize that it doesn't have to run tcpd [daemon], it can run bash, it > can run a script that edits your firewall rule, it can run anything. I > once had a telnet-based chat c

Re: [expert] Question on Firewalling

2003-05-31 Thread Jack Coates
google "door knocking firewall" or similar, and xinetd is your friend. Realize that it doesn't have to run tcpd [daemon], it can run bash, it can run a script that edits your firewall rule, it can run anything. I once had a telnet-based chat client set up that would run sirc instead of bash. On Fr

[expert] Question on Firewalling

2003-05-31 Thread James Sparenberg
All, One of the problem with ports is that you don't want it open to anyone at anytime ... but. on occasion you do want it open to a specific host. Normally this is handled by ACL's and giving only a specific host this kind of access. But this is an all or nothing proposition in tha