I don't usually follow up to my own posts, but...

Binand Raj S. forced the electrons to say:
> Shridhar Daithankar forced the electrons to say:
> > Only allowed ports to internet are 80/20/21/110/25. That locks machine
> > quiet strongly.
> 
> Assuming you mean ports accessible from Internet, I would suggest
> replacing 25 (telnet) with 22 (ssh). 

Port 25 is SMTP. telnet is 23. I am sorry for this mistake (pointed out
to me offlist by Sridhar - thanks :-). What I meant was telnet port should
be closed and ssh should be used instead. SMTP is of course an essential
service for a server.

Binand


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