Re: Yes, You Need A Firewall On Linux - Here’s Why And Which To Use

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On Wed, 20 Aug 2025 01:01:32 -0000 (UTC)
Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

> >> What's wrong with a couple of clear examples, plus the detail to
> >> expand on them?
> >>   
> > +1  
> 
> There’s a whole website devoted to that, as I mentioned elsewhere.

That's a fine thing to have in *addition* to proper man pages, but when
you're in a scenario where you don't necessarily have Internet access,
it does you little good - and that makes it especially absurd for core
networking tools to take this approach to documentation.

(It's also a bundle of fun when link rot sets in; wish I could remember
the specifics, but I have at least once been trying to figure out some
freenix package whose man page was literally nothing but a "for actual
documentation, see the project webpage," which had undergone reverse
metamorphosis into a blank Github stub. Can't recall if archive.org
even had the old version or not...)

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