[Nut-upsuser] Help with failing Nut slave/client connection

Stuart D. Gathman stuart at gathman.org
Mon Sep 12 21:46:12 UTC 2016


On Mon, 12 Sep 2016, Tim Dawson wrote:

> Or just set up sane firewall rules to allow the two to talk, but block
> external traffic. I have run this way for years - all add'rs ar IANA in a
> subnet block, and just that block is open locally, and all other external
> IP's severely restricted, and NUT works great . . .

Yeah, but IANA ips are easy to spoof.  With cjdns, you allow just the
cjdns IPs to connect to nut (or whatever) and they can't be spoofed.
You can even use telnet over cjdns ips.  :-)

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 	      Stuart D. Gathman <stuart at gathman.org>
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