On Wednesday 2010-06-23 17:13, /dev/rob0 wrote: >On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 05:36:32PM +0300, Lars Nooden wrote: >> /dev/rob0 wrote: >> >> What can be done about the old web tutorials and howtos? Many have >> not been touched in years, even if only to refresh the date stamp > >Stamp a big red warning label on the whole WWW, stating that content >is provided as-is and with no guarantees. :) What needs to be done is to talk to the Netfilter core people - Patrick, Pablo - and sort it out. This has been raised before, but nothing really got out of it because the whole domain and servers is in some obscurly-secure network that nobody has time to touch. >> and say things are still valid or to post a warning for staleness. >> e.g.: >> >> http://www.netfilter.org/documentation/HOWTO//networking-concepts-HOWTO.html >> >> If I had to choose one to start with, it might be the Oskar >> Andreasson tutorial: >> >> http://www.frozentux.net/documents/iptables-tutorial/ > >I think Oskar's is still the definitive work, but indeed, it shows >its age. If I could get a grant, I would be happy to start work on >updating Oskar's tutorial and Rusty's Unreliable Guides. (Oskar's looks a bit like a manpage reproduction.) There is also mostafa/lxsameer's book project (http://github.com/mostafa/iptables_book) I just can't find our conversation in my archives.. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
