Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2020 02:22:47 +0100 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ipfw is making contact with 198.61.170.85 port 4021 Message-ID: <20200724022247.59475066@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <5F1A354B.7030508@gmail.com> References: <5F1A354B.7030508@gmail.com>
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On Thu, 23 Jul 2020 21:11:39 -0400 Ernie Luzar wrote: > A firewall should not be making its own contact with any public ip > address. This is a security hole. > > I have not played with ipfw since before it was rewritten to become > ipfw2 so I do not know when this internal "call home" function was > added. pf and ipf are not doing this. I block it to be secure. > > Can any one provide any info about this? It might help if you explain what you have actually seen.
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