> I'm a retired computer geek who spent his life doing things that had > nothing to do with networking [...]., When I retired I put up a > couple server systems, and immediately got creamed [...] because of a > sloppy (newbie) install of RedHat 6. So I [started putting up router > blocks of various sorts].
> And y'all are actually OK without all this? Interesting. So far, as far as I can tell, I am. However, I've been a sysadmin, including networking, for most of my career, so I have a reasonably good feel for what's good for what, and what I need to run under what circumstances. A new install starts with everything turned off, with various things turned back on as necessary; the experience means that I don't run into "um, I don't know what this is, but it doesn't work without it, so I better leave it on" much - and if I *am* in that circumstance, it stays off until I have learned enough to make an informed decision. (Which may mean moving the machine to the non-routed portion of the house LAN, if I decide the service is one I want but the exposure is too much.) I also tend to push the security/convenience tradeoff further in the security direction than many people. For example, I do not even _have_ a way into my house LAN from the outside when I don't have one of my machines with me with an ssh key something inside trusts. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML [email protected] / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B _______________________________________________ timekeepers mailing list [email protected] https://fortytwo.ch/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/timekeepers
