On Wednesday 11 May 2005 8:15 am, James Wilkinson wrote: > Claude Jones wrote (about Ubuntu): > > You guys got me curious, so I installed it today > > One BIG caveat - it installs with no firewall, and there is no readily > > John Summerfied wrote: > > What services were exposed to the world? > > None. That's why there's no default firewall. > > http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/faq/firewall > aha - I'm learning > The reasoning is that if you want to open a server to the world, you'd > probably want to open a hole through the firewall, too. > > You might want to configure a firewall to only allow connections from > specific IP addresses, but IIRC the Fedora standard firewall tool won't > do that for you either... > > Setting up firestarter is very easy: apt-get it and run it. > actually, I did try this, but it didn't work - returned a could not find message - I probably missed a step somewhere, but I did try -- Claude Jones Bluemont, VA, USA
