Hello friends.<br><br>This isn't strictly an nginx question but I thought it might be useful to others on this list as well so I'll ask.<br><br>So I have a freebsd 7.0 server running. Inetd is disabled and I'm only running 2 services. Nginx listening on port 80 <br>
and sshd listening on some random hight port. Ftp is enabled but that's listening for connections on the Local Network only.<br>A sockstat -4 confirms these are the only 3 services listening on any ports and a server reboot confirms that rc.d has been<br>
set up correctly to only listen for these 3 services on a reboot.<br><br>My question is, for such a setup is a firewall really necessary? I don't think it is since this is such a simple server with only<br>these 2 services running. I don't expect any complicated DDOS attacks that an intricate firewall would be able to thwart.<br>
<br>Thanks!<br>