On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 11:17:25AM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 16:53:10 -0400,
Chuck Anderson <cra(a)WPI.EDU> wrote:
>
> Why do we need a firewall when you can easily prevent services from
> being accessed...just stop the service! Don't bind to the port, and
> it won't be possible to connect to it.
Because there are network services that you only want accessible locally.
Right, but the default firewall rules don't do that. By default maybe
the firewall should be off.