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2026-10-05 --Tech & Moderator Notes

It appears by all standards that can be used, Rantburg is well out of the target range for the connection problems we have been plagued with of late.

FreeBSD has always had a robust firewall which comes in two flavors: Default deny and Default accept. The second one is common amongst all Unix style firewalls, Linux and otherwise.

A default deny is another animal entirely. When set, nothing goes in or out. For a local server where everything is set on a local console, it works very well. No pings and no connections of any and every kind. On a remote host, hosted by a company remotely, it is difficult to set up, so not recommended.

For the last year we apparently had been happy with only occasional outages, but once they began to affect the server, it was time to change the basic strategy.

In other words, the original strategy was wrong and left Rantburg open to the kinds of problem which had been from the start.

So far, the results are promising.

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Posted by badanov 2026-10-05 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| ||Comments [93 views ] Top

1 Gracias.

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2026-10-05 03:28|| 2026-10-05 03:28|| Front Page || Comments Top

2

Thank you for your diligent efforts in addressing the issues, protecting the site and the users.

Posted by NN2N1 2026-10-05 05:06|| 2026-10-05 05:06|| Front Page || Comments Top

3 So far, the results are promising.

Understatement of the week,
if not the new fiscal year.

Posted by Skidmark 2026-10-05 06:58|| 2026-10-05 06:58|| Front Page || Comments Top

4 Spasiba bolshoiye

Posted by DooDahMan 2026-10-05 13:36|| 2026-10-05 13:36|| Front Page || Comments Top

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