On Sat, Jan 19, 2019 at 07:55:17PM -0600, Andrew David Wong wrote:
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> On 19/12/2018 6.37 PM, unman wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 11:06:25PM +0000, mossy wrote:
> >> Hello all,
> >>
> >> I was looking to see if I could update an offline standalone VM, by
> >> appending a line to `etc/qubes-rpc/policy/qubes.UpdatesProxy` and I now
> >> have some questions.
> >>
> >> First, I noticed the lines:
> >>
> >> ~~~
> >> # Default rule for all TemplateVMs - direct the connection to sys-net
> >> $type:TemplateVM $default allow,target=sys-net
> >> ~~~
> >>
> >> Q1) Is this correct?  Shouldn't updates be directed to sys-firewall
> >> instead of sys-net?  Are all of our templates exposed to (untrusted)
> >> sys-net?
> >>
> >> Hopefully I am wrong about this, but either way I'd appreciate if
> >> someone could explain...
> >> [...]
> > 
> > Q1. Yes, the default is to use sys-net. You can change this if you wish.
> > (I do)
> > The update proxy has always been set to sys-net by default.
> > The proxy used to filter traffic, but no longer does so. Again, I change
> > this behaviour.
> > [...]
> 
> What do you change it to? sys-firewall?
> 
> Why do you change it? Do you see some security risk with using sys-net?
> If so, should we file a bug report to have this changed by default?
> 

I use a caching proxy (apt-cacher-ng) for all updates.
(I also dont allow outbound traffic from sys-net or sys-firewall, but
that's another story.)

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