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Hi All
I've just arranged to have a static IP for work reasons. I' running FC5 (will upgrade to FC6 when time and backups permit) and have the firewall running allowing HTTP, HTTPS and FTP. Is there any other precautions I should be taking?
what is the workload of this computer (user or server)? If your going for security, you seemed to already hit it. Deny all connections except the ones I allow. For example my server's hosts.deny is one line ALL: ALL and my hosts.allow is ALL: 192.168.0.. This allows only connections from inside my local network.
Hi All
I've just arranged to have a static IP for work reasons. I' running FC5 (will upgrade to FC6 when time and backups permit) and have the firewall running allowing HTTP, HTTPS and FTP. Is there any other precautions I should be taking?
Thanks
gmag
Keep the Servers listening on HTTP, HTTPS, FTP up-to-date with the patches.
Distribution: OpenBSD 4.6, OS X 10.6.2, CentOS 4 & 5
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Originally Posted by coolb
Keep the Servers listening on HTTP, HTTPS, FTP up-to-date with the patches.
And don't install any software (such as blogs, message boards, etc) on your server unless you know how to secure it. By far the most common way servers get exploited is through bad PHP code.
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