RE: [Sheflug] Firewall stuff

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] ecosse.net>]

>===== Original Message From "Sheflug" <sheflug [at] vuw.ac.nz> =====
>> It won't stop httpd requests [unless running httpd from inetd]
>> It won't stop smbd/nmbd requests [unless running smbd from inetd] It
>> won't stop DNS requests It won't stop anyone connecting to your X
>> server It won't stop anything else running as a standalone daemon
>> *unless* that daemon has TCP wrappers support built in.

>Why oh why do people do this and take up resources on a
>machine that simply forwards/filters packets...

 But the post didn't suggest any sort of filtering - just relying on
hosts.deny/tcp wrappers.
 Not much of a firewall...

 Baz.

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