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  • Eh, I get what you mean but I disagree.

    That is sort of saying that if someone want to learn Swedish, but since they don’t know any Swedish, it is better to start them on Norweigan first.

    If UFW had used a similar syntax to that of iptables, then it would be a decent way of doing it, but in this example I disagree with you




  • stoy@lemmy.ziptoLinux@lemmy.mlFirewalls: what SHOULD I block?
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    UFW

    This is just my personal computer and I’m a newbie to configure firewalls

    Leave it alone.

    If you want to experiment, set up a VM and experiment there.

    Also, if you want to learn about Linux firewalls, go for iptables instead. UFW is easier, yes, but you won’t get the standard way of configuring a Linux firewall, though to be honest, unless you are directly connecting the computer to the internet, you probably won’t need to bother.

    And if you are working in an environment where you are dealing with a segmented network with limited access between segments, they will probably already use a separate firewall that is easier to manage centrally than induvidual firewalls running on individual computers






  • I feel like I belong to one of the last generations that had to figure stuff out on our own when it came to computers back when I was a kid.

    I was born in 87, my first computer ran Windows 3.11, I remember installing Windows 95 from floppy disks.

    The whole “it just works” part of tech is both fantastic and horrible, fantastic in that it works, horrible in that when it doesn’t you get way fewer tools to work with.