On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 3:02 PM, David C. Rankin <drankinatty@suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
John Andersen wrote:
On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 10:38 AM, David C. Rankin <drankinatty@suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
Devs,
You guys did a great job getting 11.0 together and it is installed and functioning as a great file server as we speak.
A great report David.
The oddity of ssh being closed in strange, given that you started the service, you would expect it to open the firewall.
Yes, that's what I thought as well. I even confirmed sshd was running and it was. I still haven't had time to take a closer look (currently building a swing set/wooden castle in 96 degree heat)
I take it this is also your primary router machine? (Sitting between your network and the internet?).
No, this is actually just a stray hanging off the network. It serves as backup DNS and DHCP, Apache operates independently on port 8084 with imaps configured on 8085. It's basically an additional 500G of local storage that mirrors the primary server for everything, family photos, etc. that now grow in size like wildfire after the wife got an 8 megapixel camera... sheesh.
Ah, so why run the suse firewall at all? (Since you shut it down, perhaps you've come to the same conclusion). As best I can tell its never needed unless you want to use it as a router, an if you do there are much easier packages to configure for that, such as shorewall. A non-open port is as much protection as you need, and a software firewall really adds nothing as long as you know what each and every thing labled LISTENING in netstat is. -- ----------JSA--------- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org