Is it possible and/or recommended to run firewalling rules on a local box? I mean, in order to lock down the ports that you don't use and that are < 1024? Right now I'm behind a firewall, but if this system moves out to the wide open net (maybe sometime in the next few months), I'd like to have it a little more secure. Of course I've shut up my inetd.conf for the services I don't use, but what about knowing when a portscan is done and then denying any and all packets from that IP in the future? Oh, and our leader, Seth Cohn, posted an article. I like the idea. Turn off webpages, sendmail, etc, and on and on on a certain date in protest of DMCA et al. How many people here (and advogato readers) have root? Hehe. http://www.advogato.org/article/319.html -Rob
