Problems with Apache2

[Derek Broughton]

bill purvis wrote:

> On Sunday 28 October 2007, Derek Broughton wrote:
>> bill purvis wrote:
>> > root at felix:# iptables --list
>> > Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
>> > target     prot opt source               destination
>> >
>> > Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
>> > target     prot opt source               destination
>> >
>> > Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
>> > target     prot opt source               destination
>> > r
>> >
>> > I don't really need it as I have iptables set up on my
>> > front-end server to protect me.
>> > It's obviously part of the standard 'desktop' installation.
>>
>> Not at all - that's a default iptables where _nothing_ has been defined.

> yeah, I understand that that's the default no rule situation.
> I just meant that the iptables package is installed, but I don't
> really need the package as I don't propose to set up any rules on
> this machine.

hmm.  I'm not sure whether it's really needed - probably not.

-- 
derek