Nico Golde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > * Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-01-16 22:50]: >> >> I have no understanding of what a packetfilter firewall actually does, >> and therefore I won't install one. On the other hand, it's easy (for >> me) to understand how hosts.deny works. >> >> Furthermore, AFAIK iptables isn't a dependency, but rather a >> configuration option when compiling the kernel - then it is *not* a >> dependency like any other. > > Oh thats right. Thanks for pointing this out! Then maybe > hosts.deny is a good idea. Please make sure to add this fact > to the discription of the package. Important fact.
You mean that I am completely ignorant wrt packet filtering? ;-) Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer
