detect outgoing connections/allow user to block them?

graysky · 2009-03-22 19:09:41

I'm looking for software that will detect when an application is opening up an outgoing connection, and prompt the user to allow/disallow it. I've been googling around and found one for MacOSX that does this called [url=http://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.htmllittle snitch[/url]but it seems to be exclusively for MacOS. Is there an equivalent for LINUX?

.:B:. · 2009-03-22 19:16:37

Maybe graphical frontends for netfilter like FireStarter can do that? I think they can have a system tray icon...

graysky · 2009-03-22 19:32:31

@B - I tried firestarter but it only offers a ports-based rule set, not an application based one.

R00KIE · 2009-03-22 19:49:20

I have read something about that before, at the time, what I read was that there wasn't (yet) no way to do that kind of control, only port control, but people were looking into it and discussing the best way to do that.
If I remember correctly, something half hay there was SELinux, but that it wasn't as flexible as what you are asking.
I've seen this maybe 1 or 1 and a half years ago so maybe something like that was already implemented.

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#1 2009-03-22 19:09:41

detect outgoing connections/allow user to block them?

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Re: detect outgoing connections/allow user to block them?

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