Re: Firewall book/webpase suggestions

["Danyell Wilt" <danyell ctelcom net>]

I agree that ssh should be used instead of telnet. If you really need it,
make sure you have only trusted workstations in your hosts.allow and deny
all in your hosts.deny.

Great Books to read:
Building Internet Firewalls
Chapman & Zwicky
O'Reilly & Associates
ISBN 1-56592-124-0

Practical Unix and Internet Security
Garfinkel & Spafford
O'Reilly & Associates
ISBN 1-56592-1488


>Can anyone suggest a good information source for building a simple secure
>filtering firewall? I need to connect my home lan to the internet via ADSL.
>I've got RH5.2 acting as a router between two ethernet interfaces. I've
>installed and configured Sentry, setup some basic ipfwadm rules, and locked
>down tcp wrappers, but I feel I'm far from a secure linux box. I need to
>provide ftp and telnet services at a bare minimum(which leaves ports 21,
23,
>and 115 open to the world). Any suggestions would be appreciated.