On 9/5/10 11:38 AM, Mr Dash Four wrote: > >> I guess I'm baffled as to why a firewall needs to have an outgoing >> blacklist. >> > Simple scenario - say I use p2p-type program (like azureus or something) > or, worse still, have a rogue code/process/program on my machine (that I > know nothing of) which tries to communicate from my machine to IP > addresses which are banned (i.e. try to "call home") - in that case I > would need these packets to be dropped without question. >
So this isn't really a firewall -- it's a host that happens to run Shorewall. That is not a use case that I target with Shorewall, although Shorewall can be used there. -Tom -- Tom Eastep \ When I die, I want to go like my Grandfather who Shoreline, \ died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like Washington, USA \ all of the passengers in his car http://shorewall.net \________________________________________________
signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: Show off your parallel programming skills. Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd
_______________________________________________ Shorewall-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/shorewall-users
