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Date:      Thu, 02 Dec 1999 13:17:59 -0500 (EST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.org, (Adam Laurie) <adam@algroup.co.uk>
Subject:   Re: rc.firewall revisited
Message-ID:  <199912021817.NAA54042@server.baldwin.cx>
In-Reply-To: <199912021807.KAA73912@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>

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On 02-Dec-99 Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> ...
>> > 
>> >     # Allow all outgoing UDP
>> >     $fwcmd add pass udp from any to any
> 
> The comment for this does not match what the rule actually does,
> this rule has not ``outgoing'' about it at all....

Grrr..  perhaps this would be better:

   $fwcmd add pass udp from ${ip} to any

>> OK, well this more or less matches my own current iteration, so I have
>> no problem with that...
> 
> The above rule set reduces to nothing more than a deny to low ports
> and NFS due to missing via/in/out clauses..

Do you prefer your earlier proposal that used a $dnsserver variable then?

> -- 
> Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25)              
> rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net

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