On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 2:32 PM, nodata <lsof(a)nodata.co.uk> wrote:
Am Mittwoch, den 24.09.2008, 22:13 +0200 schrieb Christoph Höger:
> Hi,
>
> I have some services found being activated by default that should be
> removed for the following reasons:
>
> 1. sendmail: starts way too slow, is not usefull for any normal desktop
> user I know. Making it usefull requires configuration so I assume
> wohever uses that service _can_ activate it.
How will you get emails from logwatch and errors from your cron scripts?
> 2. ip6tables: I do not know of any provider actually working with ipv6.
> So I assume the mass of all users do not need it.
Not having ipv6 firewall means that you aren't protected if someone
wants to walk your 'local' network via ipv6.
ping6 -I eth0 ff02::1
walk the hosts with no firewalls. I am guessing that turning off ipv6
altogether would be a better idea, but I do not know what effect that
has on things like ipsec etc.
--
Stephen J Smoogen. -- BSD/GNU/Linux
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed
in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice"