On Friday, September 21, 2018 08:55:21 AM Henning Follmann wrote: > Run a netstat -t -l and you will see there is nothing listening. So what is > the point of running a firewall?
I'm not the OP, but I decided to play along and run: <quote> root@s19:~# netstat -t -l Active Internet connections (only servers) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State tcp 0 0 localhost:smtp *:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 *:microsoft-ds *:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 *:netbios-ssn *:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 *:53647 *:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 *:sunrpc *:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 localhost:ipp *:* LISTEN </quote> (This on my wheezy system.) What is that telling me, and should I be worried. > By default no services (ipp might be the one exception) are running and > listening. So that's your security, just don't run what you don't need. > > > -H