On Monday 27 May 2002 14:57, Ola Theander wrote: > Dear subscribers. > > I'm currently setting up a home network which will have a Linux box acting > as a gateway/firewall, connected to the Internet, for my internal network. > The gateway computer will also have servers for the following services: > HTTP, SMTP and DNS. > > My question is, is there any good documentation, books or on-line, about > how to setup and secure an Internet exposed Linux server? The server will > run SuSE Linux 8.0, kernel 2.4.18.
My thought's, i expect Ray and Lawson will chip in as well. Documentation on a secure server, i would be suprised if there was not an URL somewhere, however i know not of one. If i was doing what you want to do i would make sure "all" services such as finger, telnet, ftp, talk, ntalk, rlogin, actually any server "other" that you mentioned above should be closed down. With IPtables/ipchains depending on which you choose, you can exclude forwarding, many uneeded UDP ports etc etc. > > I'm aware that it's not the best solution from a security point of view to > expose e.g. a WWW-server directly to the internet, but this is a home > network and currently I can't afford a more sophisticated solution. Yes and no, opinions vary here, i know of a few providers who have www servers directly accessable but they are unix machines only serving www and nothing else. In your case i would keep the www-page(s) simple, by that i mean as little as possable extern scripts, links and the likes. > > Kind regards, Ola Theander -- Regards Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
