[ale] gnutella on firewall

[Michael Hirsch]

On Wed, 2002-07-24 at 12:31, cfowler wrote:
> 
> 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.

That never happens to me when using the Limewire gnutella client.  I've
never searched for an appliacation so I've never received and exe.  I
really haven't seen a .zip, either.

Maybe we just do totally different searches.

--Michael
 
> 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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