* In a message originally to SHURATO, Mike Powell said:

 > >  Di> Yes, you would.  It's "standard practice" to have an edge firewall
 > and
 > >  Di> then a firewall on the machine with open ports to protect only the
 > >  Di> open ports.

 > > I'm in a studio apartment, with very little income and can't afford the
 > room
 > > or price of additional hardware.

 > Do you have a router?  Many/most of them have an initial firewall built
 > in.

Yes, I do.  It just has a basic firewall, like Windows.  I've got an instance
of Mystic running now on the telnet end to forward connections to eleserv and
block bots that way.

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