On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 09:21:56AM +0200, Sebastiaan wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I found out that rlinetd seems like a great replacement for inetd, because > > it lets you choose which services may be available for the outside world > > and which only for the inner network. So, standard services like echo, > > daytime, chargen, ftp, etc. are only available for the LAN, while it is > > not possible to connect to these ports from the internet. > > > > But, how secure is this? Is it really what it seems? > > first you should ask yourself why you even need echo, daytime, > discard, chargen and such. i don't think ive ever found anyone who > actually did need all of those. > Yes, that is a good question. I do not know where most of them are used for, but because they are always installed, I assumed that these are needed for correct system operation. But even if I would disable these ports, I still want to use ftp, smtp and telnet only for my local network.
Thanks, Sebastiaan