Firewall Settings
Here is a high level view article that gives some good advice on setting up a firewall. No details. This is the 300 meter level. I was just trying to figure out how to let Ping through my firewall. It has something to do with ICMP. I'm going to have to go play with the system and figure it out. Below are some rules for setting up a firewall from the article.

# Anything from inside the network is allowed out. This empowers employees to have full control to use whatever services they might need. # All access to the firewall itself is blocked from the Internet. Almost all access to the firewall is blocked from inside the network. The only people with access to the firewall should be the firewall administrators, and this should be done through some secure authentication mechanism such as two-factor identification tokens, smart cards, and finger-print scanners. # Allow SMTP messaging services for both Internet and internal users to pass through your firewall--this is required for you to receive and send e-mail. # ICMP services should be turned off to prevent utilities such as ping to pass through your firewall. Many hacker and scanning programs use ping. # You should block Telnet access to all internal servers from the Internet. At the very least, be sure to block Telnet access to your DNS server to prevent illegal zone transfers, and to prevent hackers from taking down your entire network. If your internal users need to come in to your network from outside the firewall, you should be using a VPN client, or other secure authentication system. # If your Web server is outside the firewall, consider blocking HTTP from reaching your internal networks. That way, if any employees are running Web servers for internal use on their desktops, the services will not be visible to the outside Internet. If your Web server is behind the firewall, you need to allow HTTP or HTTPS through for the Internet at large to view it. Therefore, I'd generally recommend putting Web servers outside the firewall. ZDNet

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