From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Fy2I3-00001o-IA for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 05 Jul 2006 07:59:20 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k657sXFA009624; Wed, 5 Jul 2006 07:54:33 GMT Received: from gateway3.delphi.com (gateway3.delphi.com [69.220.142.15]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k657d5Pw006860 for ; Wed, 5 Jul 2006 07:39:05 GMT Received: from USINKOK-MX05.NorthAmerica.DelphiAuto.net ([144.250.174.205]) by gateway3.delphi.com (MOS 3.8.0-FCS) with ESMTP id EBC76310; Wed, 5 Jul 2006 03:39:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: from USINKOK-MX01.NorthAmerica.DelphiAuto.net ([144.250.174.199]) by USINKOK-MX05.NorthAmerica.DelphiAuto.net with InterScan Messaging Security Suite; Wed, 05 Jul 2006 03:39:04 -0400 Received: from [10.233.7.145] ([10.233.7.145]) by USINKOK-MX01.NorthAmerica.DelphiAuto.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Wed, 5 Jul 2006 03:39:04 -0400 Message-ID: <44AB6C6A.9040008@mid.message-center.info> Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2006 09:38:18 +0200 From: Alexander Skwar User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20060104 Thunderbird/1.0.7 Mnenhy/0.6.0.104 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Protecting my server against an individual References: <49bf44f10607041556w3db1b64et625c088ba8c56541@mail.gmail.com> <44AB1C8E.4090903@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <44AB1C8E.4090903@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 05 Jul 2006 07:39:04.0251 (UTC) FILETIME=[16FC28B0:01C6A006] X-Archives-Salt: b78571d9-47b2-43c9-ab72-37364f0a5f77 X-Archives-Hash: edfdf073623d4e8cd94e628758302293 Ryan Tandy wrote: > you're running a firewall of some kind (and you'd be crazy not to for > any publically accessible box), Actually, I'd disagree. If only the necessary publicly accessible services are running on a box, what good should a "firewal" (I suppose you mean packet filter, like iptables) do? The only useful measure I can think about, is to do rate limiting. But what else? Alexander Skwar -- The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be. -- Lao Tsu -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list