[tor-relays] does it make sense to close unused ports at a tor relay with iptables ?

Toralf Förster toralf.foerster at gmx.de
Thu Apr 28 09:18:26 UTC 2016


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On 04/28/2016 11:14 AM, Tim Wilson-Brown - teor wrote:
> Ports in, or ports out?
Ports in I meant, sry.

> Closing inbound ports is a security precaution
The question is - if there's no program listening on that port, does filtering that in-port has any effect ?

> but don't close ssh by mistake!
:-D

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Toralf
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