patnliz Posted July 8, 2005 Report Share Posted July 8, 2005 Hi All, Thanks for all your help with my networking stuff before. I have at last got my wireless n/w up and running and secure and have just tonight connected my mandrake box (wired ethernet) to the internet. I have 2 other windows boxes connected to the n/w but they are switched off at the moment while I make sure the firewall is set up ok. I am unsure about the firewall configuration as I am new to this and need a little help with it. I have mandriva 2005 SE installed and have the following message n the security log: 2:11:41 drakfirewall[1007]: running: /bin/rpm -q --qf %{name} apache apache-mod_perl boa bind openssh-server ftp-server-krb5 wu-ftpd proftpd pure-ftpd sendmail postfix qmail imap courier-imap-pop telnet-server-krb5 samba-server cups bittorrent bittorrent-shadowsclient Can anyone tell mewhat it means?. Also for the first 10 or 15 minutes I was attached to the internet I had the following items allowed to be connected to by the internet in the firewall configuration: Web Server DNS SSH FTP Ping I kind of thought this was a bad thing so I have switched them all off now except Ping. otherwise the firewall has its default settings. While I want to continue to access the internet I also want to make my n/w is as secure as possible. Any best practise tips I can implement? My router also has a firewall with default settings on too. Thanks Pat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted July 9, 2005 Report Share Posted July 9, 2005 The log: probably drakfirewall looking for installed server packages (rpm's). You can safely disallow any server running on your pc if your not planning to use it as a webserver, mail server etcetc. (a server is a program that gets connected from outside. If there is no need for that just check the topbox on the configuration page) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patnliz Posted July 9, 2005 Author Report Share Posted July 9, 2005 Thanks for the info, Augustus. I want to eventually host my own website and want to host .NET webservices/webapps and .NET ASPs and EJBs/JSPs (just as a technical excercise). I guess I should try to source some free webservers/appservers to host these. Any recommendations about which are best and how to make them secure? Thanks again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted July 9, 2005 Report Share Posted July 9, 2005 The only way to make things secure is know what you're doing. :) App servers: there is a mono appserver and ofcourse jboss you can try. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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