On Tue, 2014-12-09 at 17:29 +1030, William B wrote: > > > I just happened to look at the firewalld default settings, and I > > > was not amused when I noticed this: > > > http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/firewalld.git/tree/FedoraWorkstation.xml > > > > <port protocol="udp" port="1025-65535"/> > > > > <port protocol="tcp" port="1025-65535"/> > > > This "firewall" is a joke! ALL higher ports are wide open! > > I want to point out that for many home users, going into the future > this is worse than it seems. Many of us are just thinking about the > local network. Firewalld implements these rules not just for ipv4, but > ipv6 too. If you have a low quality home router, that just lets ipv6 > traffic in, you aren't just exposed to the whole network, but the whole > internet. While ipv6 relies somewhat on well configured router > firewalls, we cannot guarantee this. That is compromise. Of course there are untrustworthy LANs. However we shouldn't cripple functionality for users on their trusted lan because there may be few users in a LAN they don't trust. If you are in such a lan, then I'd expect to switch your firewall's zone. If the installer could do that automatically, it would be even better. regards, Nikos -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
