PinkElephant wrote:Greenerpastures wrote:Why not allow all outgoing connections from your server
It's an attempt at good web citizenship with a basic defence/mitigation against web applications being exploited. All web applications are vulnerable.
(Having thought about it some more - being a bit less dense
- I'm now thinking the firewall is working as intended)
I understand, but in general allowing content to leave your server is not going to harm your server, other than used resources which should be monitored, content leaving also depends on it being allowed to leave, content leaves through port 80 all the time, cant stop that unless you inform all your users to modify their browser port.
Its incoming that is the trouble, it always has to come in first before it can leave again or do damage, and thus unless you install problems, or
allow unsecured access then there should be no problems.
Regarding CMS MADE SIMPLE, does the outgoing connections not use port 80 or https port, and email port, which are secured anyway in that they only allow outgoing when configured to do so, and will not allow pass through unless configured to.
In any event am still having slow page loads on the laptop.
Was hoping to design a site and test it locally before buying hosting,
but that may not work out until I get the pages to work first time as
it would drive people away if it happened online.
Any ides regarding whether the box I skipped during site creation would cause this problem.
Thanks and regards to all.