Hi Neil,
>
> Sorry about not replying sooner.
No, problem!
> Someone hacked into my computers (which
> includes my development machine and my mail server) two weeks ago. They
> exploited an (apparently) well known vulnerability in my version of named,
> and thus gained root access to both my machines. As a result I have had to
> rebuild everything from scratch, which wasn't pleasant, but probably a
good
> exercise... Since then I have been working to build a proper firewall
> architecture, which has meant taking time out to learn all about the joys
> of low level networking, ipchains, packet filtering and so on. Since I am
> on DSL this is probably a good idea anyway, I was a bit complacent before
I
> guess.
>
Looks like this is an neccessary step to learn how important a firewall and
up to date software versions are. We had a similar problem with an old pop3
server, on a machine that wasn't used anymore, but still was connected to
the internet. Somebody used it to do port scans to thousends of other
machines on the net :-(
> Not that any of this is really interesting to you! I am just now finishing
> installing all my development packages, and hope to be getting back into
> development mode in a couple of days. At that point I am very keen to try
> out your changes, and I will let you know how that goes.
>
Looking forward to your answer
Gerald
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