[geeks] News server access

Bill Bradford geeks at sunhelp.org
Mon Aug 13 11:52:17 CDT 2001


On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 12:44:02PM -0400, s at avoidant.org wrote:
> What happens, though, when someone finds an exploit for them? At least
> if you've done it yourself with [*BSD|Linux] you can make what changes
> you need to. With those products you've got to wait for a vendor patch.

My unit drops all connections that werent already established by 
one of the machines on the inside - you cant even ping/traceroute/portscan
it.  Any exploits would have to come from the "inside" LAN.  

Bill

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Bill Bradford
mrbill at mrbill.net
Austin, TX



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