morning thoughts on firewall

[Marco Bonetti]

On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 10:22:51 +0100, Oliver Grawert
<hostmaster at grawert.net> wrote:
> what for ? there are no open ports at all, in a default ubuntu install a
> firewall is simply not needed. the only way to open ports is to install
> any server software which will open the port that it needs. this setup
> is much safer then any misconfigured (because the user doensn't (and
> shouldnt) know about it) firewall.
I agree with you. just wondering if it could be taken into consideration.

> all configuration files for the server software is found in /etc, you
> normally can adjust all the settings for a single service there, no need
> to modify the startup scripts.
just brainstorming (with errors ;-)

thanks for all the info

ciao