[TriLUG] /etc/sysconfig/iptables suddenly gone missing?

John Broome jbroome at gmail.com
Fri Sep 10 12:37:08 EDT 2010


On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 12:34, Matt Flyer <matt at noway2.thruhere.net> wrote:
> Also, keep in mind that in Linux ports are not open unless an
> application opens them.  Having a firewall in place is a good line of
> defense, but the lack of it won't in and of itself cause a serious
> compromise.


Yes, he had squid running, but the FW was blocking outside access to
it.  FW gone, squid open to outside world.

This wasn't a mystery port that suddenly appeared.



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