Getting a bigger hose
One of my pet hates is bugs on my windshield. I don’t like the way they get caught under the wiper blade and smear all over the place until it looks like a plane crash site. I use a bunch of that squirter add-on they sell at the Petrol Station, but there’s always that bit of guts that seems to remain - then bakes to concrete in the sun. How can something so squishy end up so hard? The place that services the car told me to try meths. The way he was looking at me I wasn’t sure if we were still talking about the car.
My firewall logs are like my windscreen. Most days it’s clear, but other days my email box gets a bug swarm sized pasting that leaves me unable to see anything.
Enter version 5.3.0 of GNATBox OS.
There I am, unwrapping my shiny new OS (squeak squeak) and what do I find? A new address object called ALWAYS BLOCK.
David Brooks from GTA says this on their forum:
‘The ALWAYS_BLOCK Object is referenced by an Automatic Policy that is set to deny all connections to the firewall from members of the object. This Automatic Policy is matched before all other security policies’
And get this - by default automatic policies aren’t logged, don’t end up in my logs and don’t fill up my email box. Sweet.
So I’m hosing off the annoying bugs with my new industrial sized hose!
Thanks Dave.
Carlton
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