On Mon, 07 May 2001, Alvin Oga spewed into the ether: > there are secure'd linux versions.. > for bsd.. i hear netBSD is the most secure of the bsd family ?? OpenBSD. > firewalls should only run basic functions + ipchains??? > - some say add dns too ??? but.... good and bad idea... Huh? What basic functions? ssh, and ipchains. Firewalls should *not* use DNS. Folks, please note that any system is only as secure as its administrator makes it. If anyone is more comfortable with Linux than BSD, he/she will never be able to make an OpenBSD machine more secure than a Linux box. It may take more work to secure a Redhat machine than an OpenBSD one, but that is a one time effort (ignoring patches), but if the administrator is not confident about handling OpenBSD properly, then he/she should not do so. Production systems are too valuable to risk like that. Devdas Bhagat -- The moon may be smaller than Earth, but it's further away. - [To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe firewalls" in the body of the message.]
