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Re: [cobalt-security] Portsentry, ipchains and pmfirewall



On Sat, 19 Jan 2002 22:20:08 +0100
Francisco SАnchez <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Finally, is it the ident service tcp, udp or both.  While in the rule set by
> Michael it should be tcp only, pmfirewall includes a similar rule but for
> tcp and udp...???

As far as I know, theoretically it can be UDP, but I've never seen
servers or clients that made use of UDP.

The "security first" approach sould be: open only those ports you *know*
are needed, then investigate any problems and add those that you forgot.

Eugene