[rescue] Re: Wang Machines

Linc Fessenden linc at thelinuxlink.net
Wed Jan 16 17:20:55 CST 2002


On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez wrote:

> Firewalling is done in order to prevent the wang system to be infected by
> malitious virii that might be present in the network. The firewall is also
> used to prevent the packets generated by the wang to reach possible 
> listening ports operating in the 3rd party system(s) that are present
> in the network. When reading the wang packets these ports might spawn
> undesired child processes in the 3rd party system(s).

So, what you're saying is that you might want to use a (TCP) wrapper on
your wang to prevent 3rd party viri from infecting your wang while it is
connecting to external ports then?

-Linc Fessenden

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