[Commotion-dev] 'mesh' firewall zone

Will Hawkins hawkinsw at opentechinstitute.org
Wed Sep 18 15:55:23 UTC 2013


Hello Genevieve!

I just finished talking with our lead developer about this. You are
absolutely correct -- we could be more restrictive on the INPUT setting
for the Mesh zone. We are going to look into making this change!

Thanks for sending this note.

Will

On 09/16/2013 08:39 PM, Genevieve Bastien wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I was looking at the firewall file that ships with Commotion and was
> wondering why the 'mesh' zone has the input default to Accept.  I rather
> see it as a wan, ie an interface to a potentially hostile environment
> and it should drop packets by default.  One would need to explicitly
> open ports for remote access to the machine.
> 
> Just asking...
> 
> Geneviève
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