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From: Sudheer Divakaran <sudheer@svw.com>
To: Netfilter mailing list <netfilter@lists.netfilter.org>
Subject: A simple question
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 08:06:52 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41241244.40804@svw.com> (raw)

Hi,

In almost all IP Tables articles I've found that the default policy of 
all tables (INPUT,OUTPUT,FORWARD) set to DROP.  I can understand it as 
far as INPUT and FORWARD tables are concerned, but I do not understand 
why should we set the default policy of OUTPUT chain to DROP.  OUTPUT 
chain is responsible for packets originating from the firewall itself.  
Whay should we DROP it?

Thanks,
Sudheer


             reply	other threads:[~2004-08-19  2:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-19  2:36 Sudheer Divakaran [this message]
2004-08-19  4:18 ` A simple question Mark E. Donaldson
2004-08-19  8:39   ` Torsten Luettgert
2004-08-19  4:52 ` Dhananjoy Chowdhury
2004-08-19 15:46 ` Erick Sanz
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-08-10  0:11 A Simple Question Robb Bossley
2005-08-10 19:58 ` /dev/rob0
2005-08-11  5:54 ` Jan Engelhardt
2005-08-12  5:27 ` Grant Taylor
2004-08-19 17:58 A simple question Hudson Delbert J Contr 61 CS/SCBN
2004-08-19 17:47 Daniel Chemko
2004-08-19 17:14 Daniel Chemko
2004-08-19 17:31 ` Nick Drage
2004-08-19 15:15 Hudson Delbert J Contr 61 CS/SCBN
2004-08-19 11:04 Jason Opperisano
2004-04-06  2:25 Gianni Pucciani
2004-04-05 22:40 ` Antony Stone
2004-04-06 13:26   ` Gianni Pucciani

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