On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 15:31 +0200, Dominic Burger wrote:
da ich in der letzten Zeit vermehrt in dieser Liste gelesen habe, [ ... ]
You should have noticed that this list is speaking English so that non German subscribers can follow it, too.
daß es häufig zu Port-Scans bei neu entdeckten Bugs in div. Software kommt, möchte ich auf meinem LinuxRechner(SuSE 6.4, Server im LAN, Gateway zum I-Net) per ipchains die gefährdeten Ports blocken; außerdem soll das System immun gegen BO2K,... Attacken sein.
"Blocking the dangerous ports" will *NOT* work. Make blocking your default policy and let through what's _known_ to be _necessary._ Identify what you need (you will notice it's almost nothing -- very much like browsing all the software packages at installation time ...) and act appropriately. Plus subscribe to security lists for the software you use (it looks like you already did so for your distro) and maybe some general lists like Bugtraq. virtually yours 82D1 9B9C 01DC 4FB4 D7B4 61BE 3F49 4F77 72DE DA76 Gerhard Sittig true | mail -s "get gpg key" Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net -- If you don't understand or are scared by any of the above ask your parents or an adult to help you.