[sanesecurity] Re: I am getting a lot of these messages when I run:

  • From: Gerard Seibert <gerard@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: sanesecurity@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 12:29:41 -0500

On Wed, 24 Nov 2010 10:52:49 -0600
Brian Kesting <bkesting@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> articulated:

> I removed those two, and also I did not have the rsync port (873)
> open inbound on my firewall rules, so I opened it.

I am not familiar with you FW obviously; however, I question whether you
really want to open port 873. I use IPFW and have it configured to
create 'stateful' rules for ports like that. I believe it to be a more
secure configuration.

Then again, just my 2¢.

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