From: Nick Drage <nickd@funkyjesus.org>
To: netfilter mailing list <netfilter@lists.netfilter.org>
Subject: Re: what filtering to do on the OUTPUT chain?
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 00:26:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021023002659.C8681@funkyjesus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021022200357.TCVO1554.mta07-svc.ntlworld.com@there>; from Antony@Soft-Solutions.co.uk on Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 09:03:54PM +0100
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 09:03:54PM +0100, Antony Stone wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 October 2002 7:57 pm, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> > i've had a number of people tell me that, while they put a good deal
> > of thought into their INPUT filtering, they simply ACCEPT all outgoing
> > traffic since, if their input filtering is working properly, there's no
> > reason to stop outgoing packets.
>
> There's no reason to filter outgoing packets unless you don't trust the
> applications running on your machine.
You shouldn't trust the applications running on your machine.
> If you don't trust what's running on your machine, then you should
> probably fix more than just what netfilter allows.
Yes, but netfilter is a good start :)
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FunkyJesus System Administration Team
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-22 23:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-22 18:57 what filtering to do on the OUTPUT chain? Robert P. J. Day
2002-10-22 20:03 ` Antony Stone
2002-10-22 23:26 ` Nick Drage [this message]
2002-10-22 20:09 ` Cedric Blancher
2002-10-22 20:10 ` Robert P. J. Day
2002-10-22 23:21 ` Cedric Blancher
2002-10-23 9:43 ` Antony Stone
2002-10-23 10:24 ` Cedric Blancher
2002-10-24 21:31 ` Nick Drage
2002-10-24 23:06 ` Antony Stone
2002-10-22 23:31 ` Nick Drage
2002-10-23 6:51 ` Cedric Blancher
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