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Re: [Xen-users] Firewall rules

To: Nathan Eisenberg <nathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Firewall rules
From: Rudi Ahlers <Rudi@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 09:12:43 +0200
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On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 12:05 AM, Nathan Eisenberg
<nathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It's not really specific to XEN, but at $datacenterjob, we deploy servers 
> with the host firewall blocking everything except for ICMP-PING, and SSH or 
> RDP.  Typically, fail2ban is also installed on linux servers to kill off the 
> lazy bruteforcers.  Lastly, we drop the netbios ports using ACLs at our 
> border routers.
>
>
> _______________________________________________

Nathan, as matter of interest, do you have pre-configured ISO's or
something with the firewall already setup, or do you do this manually?

And, if it were for a XEN VM, would you do the firewalling on the dom0
host, or the domU guest?

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Rudi Ahlers
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