In the words of the starlet, I try to be cynical [read paranoid] about security, but I just can't keep up. I do some of my email and all of my Gmane activity (including this list) at the address above, from my local access provider, Comcast; but I do most of my email (and my wife does all of hers) at my own domain, to which we connect by ssh. Recently we've been moving machines about physically, from floor to floor and connection to connection. We've also been getting lots of timeouts. When I asked my domain host about it, he told me it was my own firewall cutting us off. It blocks connections out from our IP address if they fail more than it likes. I read -- no, I study, hard -- whatever security news comes across lists and sites I follow; I usually think I understand, more or less, what the hazard is. I think so this time. It seems the current default firewall is harder-nosed about failures to connect than it was; afaict, *we* are doing little if anything different. But in all my years running Linux (since RedHat 7), I have not become savvy about writing nor editing code, any more than I've become a motor mechanic by driving (since about 1955 or so). I understand that it is necessary to throttle any malware that might try to call home; so I shouldn't just comment out whatever does the blocking, even if I knew where it was. So, I THINK, I ought to enlarge a/o lubricate the opening in the firewall that lets US out, but not make it any easier than I can help for supposed malware to get out. Does that make sense? If so, where do I go (i.e., what file do I open), and what changes do I make, to accomplish that? -- Beartooth Codger, Not Quite Clueless Remember I know little (precious little!) of which way is up. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
