[TriLUG] linksys linux router question

[jonc at nc.rr.com]

Heck son,

I wouldn't use it for my domain stuff... just for folks out in the field
that want to drop stuff off at my local SMTP server so they don't have
to always modify their outbound SMTP server settings while traveling...
Of course if those folks were using a modern OS, they could run a real
email client that does SMTP auth and then all would be good. :-)

For real domain stuff, you might consider running the accept/reject
stuff local to the mail server - it's going to be a bit much for a tiny
Linksys to handle properly.

Jon

----- Original Message -----
From: Brian McCullough <bdmc at bdmcc-us.com>
Date: Monday, July 24, 2006 9:23 am
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] linksys linux router question
To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list <trilug at trilug.org>

> On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 08:57:10AM -0400, jonc at nc.rr.com wrote:
> > New Firmware.
> > 
> > Personally, I like to use upper level ports (and redirect them to 
> the> proper ports internally) for common services like SMTP and 
> SSH. This
> > by-passess most of the crufty auto-scannering bots that are out 
> there.
> 
> OK, I can understand this for SSH ( and use it myself ), but what 
> aboutreceiving "legitimate" mail from "the world", that doesn't 
> know about 
> your private port numbers?
> 
> 
> 
> > Jon
> 
> Brian
> 
> 
>