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> I do, however, share pinkee's concern about security. I was scared when I first got on, but now I'm just plain comfortable, I guess. I do keep shutting down ports, increase logging, and replace things w/ more secure alternatives so I think that this is going to help a little. > I asked some people about it at a PLUG meeting the > other month and after I remarked that I don't have my > own firewall they said what I need to do is start > shutting down ports. Is there a HOWTO I should read, > or can someone at least give me a short list of good > shell commands to accomplish this? Do an nmap on yourself. This will show you what's open. Then you can either change: /etc/services, /etc/inetd.d, or /etc/xinetd.d (in debian, it's /etc/xinetd.conf), commenting out things like wu-ftp, telnet, and rshd (cringe). > Some more comments about DSL: One thing I noticed is > that almost everyone using it is on Verizon these > days... do they already have a total monopoly in most > areas? I am extremely happy with Covad and I have > heard a lot of good things about SpeakEasy and DCAnet > as well on this list. It's just that Verizon I have heard bad about verizon as well. What do these alternatives offer? Do they filter port 80? This enrages me about verizon. Fred ______________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group - http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements-http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug