[ale] gnutella on firewall

cfowler cfowler at outpostsentinel.com
Wed Jul 24 12:31:25 EDT 2002



Funny thing about gnutella.  Everytime I look for something no matter
what I look for I find a <filename>.asf for it and .exe and .zip.  I'm
assumeing someone generates crap based on watch you are searching for to
push a porn site.


On Wed, 2002-07-24 at 08:10, Keith Hopkins wrote:
> cfowler wrote:
> > It seems like everytime I poke a hole in my firewall I get hacked.  I
> > opened up ftp last week to allow a consultant to drop files off and
> > bamn! I got hacked.  Currently I only allow outside connection via SSH
> > to on machine on the inside. 
> > 
> > 
> 
> If you only open up that one port, and it points at only one machine, and you control what is listening to that port (gnutella), then unless the listener itself has a security flaw (can be hacked), it should not be a problem.
> 
> -- 
> Lost in Tokyo,
>    Keith
> 
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