Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 20:18:09 -0800 (PST) From: Tim Erlin <tperlin@yahoo.com> To: Lord Raiden <raiden23@netzero.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Security trial for BSD firewall box. Message-ID: <20011112041809.54786.qmail@web11701.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.20011110111843.00949460@pop.netzero.net>
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You can run a vulnerability assessment tool against it. Check out nessus at www.nessus.org. --Tim --- Lord Raiden <raiden23@netzero.net> wrote: > Hi all. In a couple of weeks I'm going to be > putting a new firewall box > online complete with SMTP server, as soon as I get > the time. The box is > completed and all I need to do is install the SMTP > service and give it a > trial run. Anyone know of a good way to test this > box to see if it's setup > correctly? Like maybe a group that can hammer it > and see if I left any > holes in the protection? I think I got tripwire and > the ip filtering and > all that setup right, but I'm not totally deathly > sure. Anyone got any > ideas? I don't want to leave the SMTP server > vulnerable to spammers > either. So I'm totally game to any ideas you guys > have. I'm using FreeBSD > 4.3 stable as my platform. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of > the message __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Find a job, post your resume. http://careers.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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