At 07:36 AM 12/24/2001 -0500, Mark Weaver wrote: > >If you want to close certain ports comment them out in the file >/etc/services. However! a word of caution here. Don't get carried away with >closing ports because if you're not familiar with doing this and you close >the wrong ports BAD things will happen.
I'm familiar with common ports such as port 53, 21, etc. There are some high ports that sygatetech says are open that they call "trojan ports" that I want to block. Anyway, I was hoping for an automated way of creating the firewall instead of spending hours learning and implementing iptables. > >If you want to get bastille-firewall running, in Mandrake Control Center >there is a firewall config utility that gets the process started. It's >called Tiny Firewall. run this wizard and it will configure and start >Bastille-firewall running. I'd then suggest getting to know the in's and >out's of iptables and manually tweak the chains and ruleset to suit your >machine's unique needs. > I didn't run tiny firewall since I felt that was a duplication of effort. I have Bastille running right now, though.
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