{"id":74,"date":"2006-07-05T16:59:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-05T21:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themediumtech.com\/wp\/index.php\/2006\/07\/05\/how-to-safely-connect-from-anywhere-to-your-closed-linux-firewall-mdlogsysadmin\/"},"modified":"2012-05-17T22:51:45","modified_gmt":"2012-05-17T22:51:45","slug":"how-to-safely-connect-from-anywhere-to-your-closed-linux-firewall-mdlogsysadmin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tofi.me\/?p=74","title":{"rendered":"How to safely connect from anywhere to your closed Linux firewall | MDLog:\/sysadmin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ducea.com\/2006\/07\/05\/how-to-safely-connect-from-anywhere-to-your-closed-linux-firewall\/\">How to safely connect from anywhere to your closed Linux firewall | MDLog:\/sysadmin<\/a>: &#8220;In general all the great ideas are the simple ones. Many times we see a great idea in practice and we wander why didn\u2019t we thought of that before? It is just so simple\u2026 The first time I have seen the knockd project I liked it instantly. The idea is so simple, and though so effective. Knockd is a port-knocking application that silently runs on a server passively listening to network traffic. Once it will see a port sequence it has an action configured for it, it will run that action. We can see this as a remote control to our server: once we hit the right button it will take the appropriate action!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to safely connect from anywhere to your closed Linux firewall | MDLog:\/sysadmin: &#8220;In general all the great ideas are the simple ones. Many times we see a great idea in practice and we wander why didn\u2019t we thought of that before? It is just so simple\u2026 The first time I have seen the knockd [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tofi.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tofi.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tofi.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tofi.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tofi.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tofi.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":572,"href":"https:\/\/tofi.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions\/572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tofi.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tofi.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tofi.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}