Tom Eastep <teas...@shorewall.net> wrote: > ... while I have continued to develop and support Shorewall, I feel that it > is now time to say goodbye.
Well I can't really add anything to what's already been said. Thank you so much for what has been an excellent and reliable package, with support that make's many commercial offering look bad, and which has made some very complicated things (almost) simple. I guess, as well as your own situation, there's the apparent intention to deprecate iptables - so now is probably about as good a time as any to call it a day. Though from some of the things I've read on the net and in other mailing lists, it's not certain that nft is going to be it's replacement. And also, from what little I've seen, nft seems to have an awful syntax. And your well earned retirement co-incides (almost, it happened 18 months ago) with me being made redundant and almost all the systems I looked after (all running Shorewall) shut down because of a "I don't understand it and it's not from Micro$oft so I'm getting rid of it" manglement. Oh I did chuckle to myself when they killed the DNS for about 100 domains (including their own) by shutting down the master DNS and assuming the slaves would carry on serving the zones :-) And as others have offered, if you find yourself in my part of the world (North West England) then get in touch and I'll offer what hospitality I can. _______________________________________________ Shorewall-users mailing list Shorewall-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/shorewall-users