Options to be added

[WaaromZoMoeilijk]

How about:

• By default enabling UFW and opening ports: 10000, 443, 80 and SSH. Default deny incoming?
• Setting swappiness to about 5
• Change nameservers to COMODO instead of google NS

[enoch85]

1. Deny incoming 443 and 80? Not sure, but woulnd't that break SSL and HTTP?
2. Evaluate please.
3. It was Comodo before, but there is no need for them really.

[WaaromZoMoeilijk]

1. It says open ports 10000, 443, 80 and SSH and besides that deny all incoming
2. Will do will try to find some article's
3. Privacy

[enoch85]

: 1. It's up to the user to set firewall rules. What if he/she wants to install some other software, but isn't aware of that everything is denied? = Unusable VM. Also, no ports are open that are not needed to be open in Ubuntu.

: 3. How is Comodo more private?

[enoch85]

Ping @ezraholm50

[WaaromZoMoeilijk]

valid?

[WaaromZoMoeilijk]

Google vs Comodo speed:
29 ms vs 167 ms, google it is!

root@HTPC:~# dig @8.8.8.8 hub.tutsplus.com

; <<>> DiG 9.10.3-P4-Ubuntu <<>> @8.8.8.8 hub.tutsplus.com
; (1 server found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 30831
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 5, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 512
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;hub.tutsplus.com.      IN  A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
hub.tutsplus.com.   299 IN  A   104.16.129.61
hub.tutsplus.com.   299 IN  A   104.16.255.60
hub.tutsplus.com.   299 IN  A   104.16.254.60
hub.tutsplus.com.   299 IN  A   104.16.128.61
hub.tutsplus.com.   299 IN  A   104.16.130.61

;; Query time: 29 msec
;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8)
;; WHEN: Fri Jul 29 14:14:34 CEST 2016
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 125

root@HTPC:~# dig @8.26.56.26 hub.tutsplus.com

; <<>> DiG 9.10.3-P4-Ubuntu <<>> @8.26.56.26 hub.tutsplus.com
; (1 server found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 65073
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 5, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;hub.tutsplus.com.      IN  A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
hub.tutsplus.com.   300 IN  A   104.16.129.61
hub.tutsplus.com.   300 IN  A   104.16.255.60
hub.tutsplus.com.   300 IN  A   104.16.254.60
hub.tutsplus.com.   300 IN  A   104.16.128.61
hub.tutsplus.com.   300 IN  A   104.16.130.61

;; Query time: 167 msec
;; SERVER: 8.26.56.26#53(8.26.56.26)
;; WHEN: Fri Jul 29 14:14:44 CEST 2016
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 125

root@HTPC:~#