Iptables defaults to accept input?

Petri Pennanen suvarin at home.se
Mon Sep 20 15:24:19 UTC 2004


On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 17:00 +0200, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Hi again!
> 
> On 2004-09-20 16:53 +0200, Martin Pitt wrote:
> > Your installation is fine. The reason why we don't firewall packages
> > by default is that we don't need to because in the standard
> > installation there is nothing to connect to from the outside 
> 
> Sorry, I lied. portmap is still open. There is an existing patch
> against this, but it is not applied yet. But I will try to get this
> into the final version. It would be a pity if we missed the zero ports
> goal by one :-)
> 
> Martin
> 

Thank you! Now I can sleep at night :)

- Petri





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