Firewall

[Adam Williamson]

On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 19:05 +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:

> The other benefit would be if the user only intended the
> service to be accessible to localhost, or a UNIX domain
> socket but for some reason screwed up their service's
> config & opened it to the world.

I use it as a safety net for much this reason. I am not comfortable with
100% guaranteeing that 'helpful' services we install by default like
Avahi are not doing things I really wouldn't want them to do when I
connect to some open wifi network.
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