Blackhole

[Tobias Speckbacher]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-list-
> bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Chris Kenward
> Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 12:30 PM
> To: 'General Red Hat Linux discussion list'
> Subject: RE: Blackhole
> 
> Hi Tobias
> 
> > Of course this will not work if the web server is properly
> > firewalled, which in my experience they hardly ever are.
> 
> How would you see "properly firewalled"? We allow 80 through the
firewall
> and, for servers with SSL, we allow 443. Some explanation as to what
you
> mean would be grand - and then I'll check how we're set up!! ;)

I was specifically referring to denying outbound connections from the
webserver.  In my example xterm is connecting to the X-Server, which is
only possible if the machine is allowed to establish connection to the
outside.

> 
> Regards
> Chris
> 
> 
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