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
next prev 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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