RE: [TCLUG:12807] bad day (more details)

[Christopher Palmer <reid@pconline.com>]

On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Timothy Wilson wrote:

> Is it a security/utility tradeoff here?

security = 1 / convenience

:(

You could allow NFS (or other) connections only to your IP at home and the
IPs at school, and disallow everyone else. If you are dialing up at home,
you'd have to either get a static IP or allow the entire class C(s) of
your ISP's modem banks (not good but better than nothing).


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