From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Do you block outbound ports?
Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2011 17:41:00 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEH5T2P3WCAnYB4mf-S7Qcqu154Hg5zoGn9j50T8s2=SLFw71g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN0CFw2hfsq=Eo+Hwrn0nrs1yLu7_aKMWRhC9DdUc1_WwEszUw@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com> wrote:
> I like the policy of blocking all ports in and out with a firewall and
> only opening the ones you need. Bittorrent makes that difficult since
> it connects out to unpredictable ports. Do you block outbound ports
> with a firewall or only inbound?
I don't block anything outbound, but my ISP does (mostly MS-stuff that
I don't care about). I do, however, occasionally block all outgoing
just to see what the logs show, so I'm aware of what's happening. But
I don't actively monitor that outbound traffic.
I block everything inbound and only open what's specifically needed. I
use denyhosts and fail2ban to block bad guys from all ports.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-20 22:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-20 17:38 [gentoo-user] Do you block outbound ports? Grant
2011-08-20 19:02 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-08-21 4:31 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-08-20 19:11 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2011-08-20 22:41 ` Paul Hartman [this message]
2011-08-21 12:10 ` James
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