[ale] gnutella on firewall

[Keith Hopkins]

cfowler wrote:
> It seems like everytime I poke a hole in my firewall I get hacked.  I
> opened up ftp last week to allow a consultant to drop files off and
> bamn! I got hacked.  Currently I only allow outside connection via SSH
> to on machine on the inside. 
> 
> 

If you only open up that one port, and it points at only one machine, and you control what is listening to that port (gnutella), then unless the listener itself has a security flaw (can be hacked), it should not be a problem.

-- 
Lost in Tokyo,
   Keith



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