take the axe a little closer, since I didn't say what I meant either, and

better empty than wrong.
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<sect><heading>Firewalls<label id="firewalls"></heading>
@ -489,15 +489,10 @@ want to allow from the inside. Some general rules are:
<itemize>
<item>Block all incoming access to ports below 1000 for TCP. This is
<item>Block all incoming access to ports below 1024 for TCP. This is
where most of the security sensitive services are, like finger, SMTP
(mail) and telnet.
<item>Block all incoming access also to TCP ports between 1001 and 1024
inclusive, unless rlogin/rsh access from outside is to be enabled, in which
case incoming SYN (<bf>setup</bf>) connections should be blocked on these
ports and allowed on the relevant service port(s).
<item>Block <bf>all</bf> incoming UDP traffic. There are very few
useful services that travel over UDP, and what useful traffic there is
is normally a security threat (e.g. Suns RPC and NFS protocols). This