auto-firewall configuration

Jens Knutson jensknutson at yahoo.com
Fri Apr 23 01:23:40 UTC 2004


On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 19:59, Matthew Miller wrote:
> > desktop, that probably means everything is closed. If someone starts a
> > service, the initscript or whatever can open the port. If you don't want a
> > port open, stop the service.
> 
> In that case, why even _have_ a firewall? If nothing's listening on a port,
> it's not like anyone can connect to it.

but then...  if a service is to be made available, you can't have the
firewall turned on for that port, so why have the service if the
firewall will just prevent it from functioning?

 - jck

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