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Date:      Wed, 20 Mar 2002 17:52:11 +0100
From:      Walter Hop <walter@binity.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ipfw rules: dangerous rules?
Message-ID:  <200203201749.08396@silver.dt1.binity.net>
In-Reply-To: <20020320160349.GB27566@icarus.slightlystrange.org>
References:  <3C992774.D763B085@froekjaer.org> <Pine.GSO.4.33.0203201646400.12073-100000@bark> <20020320160349.GB27566@icarus.slightlystrange.org>

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[in reply to Daniel Bye, Wednesday 20 March 2002 17:03]

[Proposed ruleset to allow DNS]
> > ipfw add allow udp from any to DNS-IP 53 out via INTERFACE
> > ipfw add allow udp from DNS-IP 53 to any in via INTERFACE

Wouldn't this ruleset allow evil people to send udp packets from their 
port 53 to an arbitrary UDP port on this box, and possibly reach local 
services such as rpc, nfs and smb by this rule? Or am I being paranoid? :)

walter

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