On Tue, 22 Jan 2002 15:12, you wrote: > At 09:53 PM 1/21/2002 -0600, J. Craig Woods wrote: > >At 08:18 PM 1/21/2002 -0700, Lee Roberts wrote: > >>At 08:15 PM 1/21/2002 -0600, Mike White wrote: > >> >I think Firestarter is the easiest to set up and run. It too closes up > >> >your box real well. > >> > >>And yet another firewall script that does NOT do a thorough job....... > > > >Hell, could you have been any more enigmatic? How about fleshing this > >critique out? Are you alluding to Firestarter, and what exactly are you > >saying? I do not use it but I love to learn about things unbeknownst to > >myself.... > > I've used tiny firewall, bastille firewall, and firestarter. When I go to > sygatetech.com for port scans, none of the UDP ports are blocked and some > UDP ports are open (most of the UDP ports are closed - not blocked). The > TCP port blocks are set up, though, except for TCP port 53 which I have > manually blocked. I guess it's a good thing I don't have anything important > on the Linux box yet.
Odd...I've got Bastille running and the UDP scan at sygatetech.com can't find one open port -- Andrew George ------------------- The meek are contesting the will.
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