From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QuqyZ-00069c-Rp for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 20 Aug 2011 19:13:01 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9237021C29D; Sat, 20 Aug 2011 19:12:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD0F221C1EC for ; Sat, 20 Aug 2011 19:11:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DD291B4037 for ; Sat, 20 Aug 2011 19:11:06 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -4.952 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.952 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=1.647, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-4] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 8JhEXCThhlg3 for ; Sat, 20 Aug 2011 19:10:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2B911B4035 for ; Sat, 20 Aug 2011 19:10:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QuqwX-0001XP-Jc for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sat, 20 Aug 2011 21:10:53 +0200 Received: from athedsl-391888.home.otenet.gr ([79.131.82.206]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 20 Aug 2011 21:10:53 +0200 Received: from realnc by athedsl-391888.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 20 Aug 2011 21:10:53 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Do you block outbound ports? Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2011 22:11:14 +0300 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-391888.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110705 Thunderbird/5.0 In-Reply-To: X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 4c52a18757e82d0080ac45d4a8261034 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