That's a good thing. Almost all linux distros give you an IPv6 addy by
default, ubuntu is no exception. If they weren't blocking things in the
firewall, you'd go and secure your IPv4 and leave your IPv6 wide open :)
Do an "ip a" on you commandline and see if you have an IPv6 addy.
inet6 fe80::4a5b:39ff:fe2c:7141/64 scope link
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 1:07 AM, Michael Havens <
bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
> I was wondering, I was looking at the listening report in gufw (gui
> uncomplicated firewall) and one of the addresses it lists is an ipv6
> address. Why is that?
>
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 12:43 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> the 'u' in ufw isn't uncomplicated but ubuntu!
>>
>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 12:40 AM, James Mcphee <jmcphe@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> ufw is a ubuntu configuration tool for the standard linux netfilter
>>> firewall.
>>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UFW
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 12:36 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> gee.... is ufw enabled by default?
>>>> also, is it only a buntu thing or is it a debian thing? or is it a
>>>> linux thing?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 12:29 AM, James Mcphee <jmcphe@gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> sudo ufw status verbose
>>>>> to see what it's up to
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 12:15 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I have a question, I am on a forum and they are saying to enable ufw
>>>>>> but they aren't saying to create any rules. SO ufw is enabled but it isn't
>>>>>> filtering anything so ufw may as well not be enabled. Isn't that correct?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 11:57 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Why does one need to run ufw. What will it do?
>>>>>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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