Abstract said:Hi Everyone,
Thanks for the quick reply. In /etc/rc.conf there isn't any firewall thats been activate.
If there isn't any firewall installed isn't the risk of a hack higher?
Best Wishes,
Arian
Not as high as a machine setup and maintained by an admin who doesn't understand what a firewall is.Abstract said:If there isn't any firewall installed isn't the risk of a hack higher?
That's an inaccurate generalisation. What's a firewall going to help on a machine running no more services than those that need to be public?Oko said:You should not be connected to Internet if you do not have firewall enabled. It is safe to assume that your machine is already hijacked if you surfed the net without firewall.
So it is safe to assume that machine running no services needs no firewall? Right?aragon said:That's an inaccurate generalisation. What's a firewall going to help on a machine running no more services than those that need to be public?
Lets not exaggerate here. The purpose of a firewall is to provide statefull inspection on allowed services. A more sophisticated firewall could enforce RFC standards on some of them by using application inspection.Oko said:So it is safe to assume that machine running no services needs no firewall? Right?
Cheers,
OKO
P.S. In the real world it is safe to assume that any machine running X is hijacked, including this one which runs OpenBSD and it is heavily firewalled
gkontos said:Lets not exaggerate here. The purpose of a firewall is to provide statefull inspection on allowed services. A more sophisticated firewall could enforce RFC standards on some of them by using application inspection.
George
If there isn't any firewall installed isn't the risk of a hack higher?