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Re: firewall that regulates programs?

From Chris Davies <chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.networking
Subject Re: firewall that regulates programs?
Date 2014-10-09 11:05 +0100
Organization Roaima. Harrogate, North Yorkshire, UK
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Todd <Todd@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> Just out of curiosity, is there a way to get iptables or
> ]equivalent to control what programs get to outbound
> access the Internet?

No, but you can control what ports (services), and sometimes protocols,
can be accessed. So if you wanted to block SMTP to tcp/25 that could be
done. But you cannot block exim, for example, but permit postfix.

Chris

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firewall that regulates programs? Todd <Todd@invalid.invalid> - 2014-10-08 14:12 -0700
  Re: firewall that regulates programs? Chris Davies <chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk> - 2014-10-09 11:05 +0100
  Re: firewall that regulates programs? Joe Beanfish <joebeanfish@nospam.duh> - 2014-10-09 13:28 +0000
    Re: firewall that regulates programs? Todd <Todd@invalid.invalid> - 2014-10-09 12:57 -0700
      Re: firewall that regulates programs? William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2014-10-10 15:45 +0000
        Re: firewall that regulates programs? Denis Corbin <news@edrusb.is-a-geek.org> - 2014-10-11 22:08 +0200
          Re: firewall that regulates programs? Todd <Todd@invalid.invalid> - 2014-10-11 16:56 -0700
  Re: firewall that regulates programs? buck <buck@private.mil> - 2014-10-12 17:53 +0000
    Re: firewall that regulates programs? Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2014-10-12 19:33 +0100
  Re: firewall that regulates programs? Chris Cox <chrisncoxn@endlessnow.com> - 2014-10-12 15:00 -0500

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