Re: http thru firewall

[http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (robert)]

If you're using RedHat, for the most part, yes.  The main hole is sendmail,
which you should disable.  I think you can use chkconfig to disable it,
something like "chkconfig --remove sendmail" or something.

Is Linux going to be your main gateway machine?  If so, you should install
IP masquerading, then you won't have to worry.  ("What me, worry?")

 > From: Mark Reimers <http://www.100X.com/~mreimers>
 > Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 17:31:57 -0500
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 > Robert,     I would like to start running day-long unattended http
 > sessions between my machine at home and a couple of servers. This is to
 > download massive amounts of data. My ZoneAlarm of course won't protect
 > me; probably I'll need a linux box. How would you configure linux to
 > allow only data from a few sites but block all TCP requests from
 > elsewhere? Would hosts.allowed be enough?
 > 
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