From: Sean Mitchell <SMitchell@phoenix-interactive.com>
To: gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org
Subject: RE: [gentoo-dev] NAT iptables info
Date: Wed Oct 3 13:53:02 2001 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1DCB85BD45DED211B12D009027279E4F47700B@murcury> (raw)
> From: Donny Davies [mailto:woodchip@gentoo.org]
> Nope. Sorry. Im not in agreement in this at all. Of course,
> its open to debate,
> Im not saying I know everything, nor Im 100% right. Go ahead,
> debate away.
> But I dont want any part of it, Ill tell you that!
>
> If you dont understand the ramnifications of packet
> filetering, NAT, etc then
> you have *no* business running this software. We are not
> Microsoft or Wingate,
> opening yuor machine to a wider world.
<snip rest of post>
I have to agree in principle here, FWIW. The answer to this problem of
making the functionality available to everyone is to make sure things are
clearly and thoroughly documented. I think we are best served by following
the OpenBSD example of a secure default install and then let the users
change configuration to suit.
Cheers,
Sean
next reply other threads:[~2001-10-03 19:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-03 13:53 Sean Mitchell [this message]
2001-10-04 4:54 ` [gentoo-dev] NAT iptables info Djamil ESSAISSI
2001-10-04 13:29 ` Daniel Robbins
2001-10-04 14:31 ` Nathaniel Grady
2001-10-05 3:47 ` Djamil ESSAISSI
2001-10-05 10:28 ` Daniel Robbins
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-10-04 14:48 Sherman Boyd
2001-10-03 13:39 Donny Davies
2001-10-03 13:46 ` Michael M Nazaroff
2001-10-03 18:12 ` Collins Richey
2001-10-03 13:15 Sherman Boyd
2001-10-01 15:02 Donny Davies
2001-10-01 20:29 ` Chad Huneycutt
2001-10-02 4:13 ` Djamil ESSAISSI
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