Re: [PLUG] iptables question

[David Coulson <david@davidcoulson.net>]

On 1/31/2011 2:16 PM, Robert Spangler wrote:
> While logging is good thing, to much logging is a nightmare.  For the simple
> reason you fill up your logs with information that is useless and going over
> the logs is a task because you have too much useless information in them.
> What do you care if someone is trying to log into port(s) you don't have
> open?
I'm confused what you mean by 'open ports' - Do you mean something that 
has a service listening on it, or a port open in iptables?

I pretty much don't log anything. Way too much garbage and 99% of the 
time there is a problem it's reproducible when I can watch it with tcpdump.
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