cloud and local firewall at all (sig consensus?)

[Dave Neary]

Hi,
On 12/20/2012 09:49 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
> I'd like to get a group consensus on this. Dennis Gilmore has expressed
> concern about leaving the local firewall off -- having it on may be
> redundant, but it protects against configuration errors or security bugs in
> EC2 itself.

My 2c is that cloud images should be leaving firewall config to their 
cloud provider, and not ship with that my default. A competent sysadmin 
can add additional constraints later.

Cheers,
Dave.

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