Thanks all. Found a much tidier if less clever masq rule and all is well. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Colin Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian User List" <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 11:15 AM Subject: Re: How secure am I?
| On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 10:21:51AM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote: | > Now that I've ADSL working, I suppose I'd better take a few precautions. | > | > 1. Running woody so is there a Woody specific line to add to sources'list | > for security updates? | | Be warned that you have to pay some attention to security when running | testing. Developers never upload to testing, just unstable, and packages | then propagate through to testing after a delay to ensure that they | aren't completely broken; however, in the case of security fixes in | unstable this can mean that urgent uploads don't always propagate | through as quickly as they might. | | Unfortunately I can't really offer you a wonderful solution at the | moment. However, since we're approaching freeze, the distribution should | be in a condition where security fixes can propagate into testing | relatively quickly now. | | > I see no need to share a printer, port 25, dns or finger with the internet | > at large. In fact, I don't know what finger, sunprpc, time, discard, | > daytime do :-( | | Check your /etc/inetd.conf for starters. | | -- | Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | -- | To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
