[Wolves] nmap request

[David Goodwin]

> Can I be really boring and ask, why firewall the
> service and not just turn it off? If you rely on your
> firewall as the only thing between your machine being
> secure or not, it's probably not secure...
>

I do turn most of them off, or bind them only to internal interfaces,
however some services do not allow this (e.g. PostgreSQL, IMAP etc), so a
firewall is the only option.

David.


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