Re: Why not have firewall rules by default?

2008-02-06 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-01-31 10:02:41, schrieb Chris Ferguson: What about Firestarter? (www.fs-security.com). Is it a good solution to a personal use firewall? END OF REPLIED MESSAGE Maybe, but not as default. What about installing D-I question which ask the

Re: Why not have firewall rules by default?

2008-01-30 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-01-23 09:19:01, schrieb William Twomey: It's my understanding (and experience) that a Debian system by default is vulnerable to SYN flooding (at least when running services) and other such mischeif. I was curious as to why tcp_syncookies (and similar things) are not enabled by

Re: Why not have firewall rules by default?

2008-01-30 Thread Chris Ferguson
Am 2008-01-23 09:19:01, schrieb William Twomey: It's my understanding (and experience) that a Debian system by default is vulnerable to SYN flooding (at least when running services) and other such mischeif. I was curious as to why tcp_syncookies (and similar things) are not enabled by

Re: Why not have firewall rules by default?

2008-01-29 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 06:43:27PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: Debian has a policy to install as few network services as possible in a default install and bind them to the loopback interface if possible. Where is this described in Policy? Maybe 'policy' was a rather strict word. Actually,

Re: Why not have firewall rules by default?

2008-01-28 Thread Jose Marrero
Please check out section 3.6 of the Securing Debian Manual. IIRC: - a default install (i.e. one in which you just press Enter all the way and select no tasks) will get you OpenSSH, Exim and portmap, with Exim bound to the loopback interface. portmap is typically not bound to the

Re: Why not have firewall rules by default?

2008-01-27 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 01:15:18PM -0600, William Twomey wrote: I guess my point is if the 'iptables' package is installed by default on Debian, then better integration with Debian would probably be a good idea. Iptables provides the tools, the init.d script was removed since it conflicted

Re: Why not have firewall rules by default?

2008-01-27 Thread Florian Weimer
* Henrique de Moraes Holschuh: On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Rolf Kutz wrote: On 23/01/08 08:29 -0700, Michael Loftis wrote: It's better to leave the service disabled, or even better, completely uninstalled from a security standpoint, and from a DoS standpoint as well. The Linux kernel isn't very

Re: Why not have firewall rules by default?

2008-01-27 Thread Jonas Andradas
Hello, As Javier says: See http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ch-sec-services..en.html#s-firewall-setup : Just in case somebody doesn't notice, there is a typo in this URL (double-dot), so I will post it correctly

Re: Why not have firewall rules by default?

2008-01-25 Thread Brent Clark
Hi Little something on the side, while its in my mind. If there was anything i would like to see, that is more of the netfilters patch o matic's available in the kernel. Hence, less need to wget patch o matic and to follow the process. Its not a big task, but still, total time waster.

Re: Why not have firewall rules by default?

2008-01-25 Thread Török Edwin
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Rolf Kutz wrote: On 23/01/08 08:29 -0700, Michael Loftis wrote: It's better to leave the service disabled, or even better, completely uninstalled from a security standpoint, and from a DoS standpoint as well. The Linux

Re: Why not have firewall rules by default?

2008-01-25 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Rolf Kutz wrote: On 23/01/08 08:29 -0700, Michael Loftis wrote: It's better to leave the service disabled, or even better, completely uninstalled from a security standpoint, and from a DoS standpoint as well. The Linux kernel isn't very efficient at processing firewall

Re: Why not have firewall rules by default?

2008-01-25 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Török Edwin wrote: If it is 2.6, I suggest you to contact the netfilter mailing list [1], and show them your firewall rules, What makes you think they don't know about this? It is a design detail of the way netfilter is implemented, and the two methods of acceleration I

Why not have firewall rules by default?

2008-01-23 Thread William Twomey
It's my understanding (and experience) that a Debian system by default is vulnerable to SYN flooding (at least when running services) and other such mischeif. I was curious as to why tcp_syncookies (and similar things) are not enabled by default. Many distros (RPM-based mostly from my

Re: Why not have firewall rules by default?

2008-01-23 Thread Thomas Damgaard
On Jan 23, 2008 4:19 PM, William Twomey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One solution could be to have a folder called /etc/security/iptables that contains files that get passed to iptables at startup (in the same way /etc/rc2.d gets read in numeric order). So you could have files like 22ssh, 23ftp,

Re: Why not have firewall rules by default?

2008-01-23 Thread Michael Loftis
--On January 23, 2008 9:19:01 AM -0600 William Twomey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's my understanding (and experience) that a Debian system by default is vulnerable to SYN flooding (at least when running services) and other such mischeif. I was curious as to why tcp_syncookies (and similar

Re: Why not have firewall rules by default?

2008-01-23 Thread maximilian attems
On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 08:29:25AM -0700, Michael Loftis wrote: It's better to leave the service disabled, or even better, completely uninstalled from a security standpoint, and from a DoS standpoint as well. The Linux kernel isn't very efficient at processing firewall rules. Newer

Re: Why not have firewall rules by default?

2008-01-23 Thread Riku Valli
Rolf Kutz wrote: On 23/01/08 08:29 -0700, Michael Loftis wrote: It's better to leave the service disabled, or even better, completely uninstalled from a security standpoint, and from a DoS standpoint as well. The Linux kernel isn't very efficient at processing firewall rules. Newer I

Re: Why not have firewall rules by default?

2008-01-23 Thread Ondrej Zajicek
On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 09:19:01AM -0600, William Twomey wrote: One solution could be to have a folder called /etc/security/iptables that contains files that get passed to iptables at startup (in the same way /etc/rc2.d gets read in numeric order). So you could have files like 22ssh, 23ftp,

Re: Why not have firewall rules by default?

2008-01-23 Thread Vincent Deffontaines
Michael Loftis wrote: [snip] It's better to leave the service disabled, or even better, completely uninstalled from a security standpoint, and from a DoS standpoint as well. The Linux kernel isn't very efficient at processing firewall rules. Newer kernels might be though (I honestly haven't

Re: Why not have firewall rules by default?

2008-01-23 Thread Riku Valli
William Twomey wrote: Debian haven't any open services by default, except portmapper and behind portmapper aren't any services. So no need for host firewall. But isn't it reasonable to assume that most people will be installing services? Even a desktop user is likely to enable SSH and maybe

Re: Why not have firewall rules by default?

2008-01-23 Thread William Twomey
If this is needed/wanted to Debian, no problems, but remember obscure isn't security. With fwbuilder, lokkit (Gnome), kmyfirewall (kde) etc is very easy made and maintain firewall/s at Linux and all of these are regular Debian packages. That is true at there should be more information about

Re: Why not have firewall rules by default?

2008-01-23 Thread Rolf Kutz
On 23/01/08 18:48 +0200, Riku Valli wrote: Debian haven't any open services by default, except portmapper and behind portmapper aren't any services. So no need for host firewall. Ack. I didn't want to argue pro a default firewall. regards, Rolf -- ...about the greatest democrazy in the

Re: Why not have firewall rules by default?

2008-01-23 Thread Riku Valli
William Twomey wrote: If this is needed/wanted to Debian, no problems, but remember obscure isn't security. With fwbuilder, lokkit (Gnome), kmyfirewall (kde) etc is very easy made and maintain firewall/s at Linux and all of these are regular Debian packages. That is true at there should be

Re: Why not have firewall rules by default?

2008-01-23 Thread Riku Valli
William Twomey wrote: It's my understanding (and experience) that a Debian system by default is vulnerable to SYN flooding (at least when running services) and other such mischeif. I was curious as to why tcp_syncookies (and similar things) are not enabled by default. Sorry forgot that.

Re: Why not have firewall rules by default?

2008-01-23 Thread Florian Weimer
* Ondrej Zajicek: You could also have an 'ENABLED' variable like some files in /etc/default have (so that ports wouldn't be opened by default; the user would have to manually enable them for the port to be opened). Better way is just not start that daemon. The daemon might have been

Re: Why not have firewall rules by default?

2008-01-23 Thread James Shupe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I believe Debian's method of handling iptables is perfect. if-up.d and its counterparts provide a great means for scripting complex firewall sets. For example, I have written a perl script that parses a custom config file that defines certain IPs and

Re: Why not have firewall rules by default?

2008-01-23 Thread Maximilian Wilhelm
Am Wednesday, den 23 January hub Florian Weimer folgendes in die Tasten: * Ondrej Zajicek: You could also have an 'ENABLED' variable like some files in /etc/default have (so that ports wouldn't be opened by default; the user would have to manually enable them for the port to be opened).

Re: Why not have firewall rules by default?

2008-01-23 Thread Russ Allbery
Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The daemon might have been installed by a package dependency, more or less by accident. Debian should have a policy that all daemons bind to the loopback interface by default, but as long as this is not the case, I can understand why people put paket