[Bloat] New Cerowrt user; surprises

Anthony Lieuallen arantius at gmail.com
Wed Oct 24 09:50:36 EDT 2012


I read that it's not intended to be, but I've just installed Cerowrt as my
primary router at home.  I was surprised by the fact that:

* The list of open/filtered ports in an external nmap is bigger than I
expect.  I saw the explanation for some of them like ftp/telnet.
* But one of them is DNS, and it's really open, and recursively resolving
for the entire internet.
* And it's answering private (172.30...) names that the world shouldn't
know.
* I haven't changed any firewalling rules, but the guest wireless (gw10)
can see the lan (se00) addresses and communicate with them.

I'm sure I could tweak the rules to "fix" all of these, but I'm surprised
that this is the default configuration.  And I'm not yet 100% confident of
the difference between the Firewall pane's "General Settings" and "Traffic
Rules" yet, so I don't want to poke too much.
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