Re: Holes in the firewall of Mac OS X Leopard

On Oct 29, 2007, at 17:49 , Juergen Schmidt wrote:

> - if you set it to "Block all incoming connections" it still allows
> access
> to certain system services. We could access the ntp daemon that is
> running
> per default over the internet. In a LAN based scenario, we were
> able to
> query the Netbios naming service even with full blocking enabled.

The firewall in Tiger, and presumably Leopard, only affects TCP
services by default (you can enable UDP filtering in the Advanced
settings). So no change here from the status quo.

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