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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Do you block outbound ports?
Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2011 22:11:14 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <j2p0rg$jjr$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN0CFw2hfsq=Eo+Hwrn0nrs1yLu7_aKMWRhC9DdUc1_WwEszUw@mail.gmail.com>

On 08/20/2011 08:38 PM, Grant 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 block neither in nor outbound.  I don't run any kind of firewall 
because its whole point is interfering with network traffic  :-P




  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-08-20 19:13 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 ` Nikos Chantziaras [this message]
2011-08-20 22:41 ` Paul Hartman
2011-08-21 12:10 ` [gentoo-user] " James

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