OSX Firewall question

[billyergs]

Is there a way to close connections to individual ip addresses using OSX's firewall or do I have to purchase 3rd party firewall software?

 

[Poeben]

yes and no. You cannot do it from the GUI, but you can access the firewall (ipfw) from terminal and add rules there to do whatever you want. I won't even go there, except to say that ipfw is the program you use from terminal...take a poke around google and read the man page about 100 times.

If you are worried about 'outbound' connections, then Little Snitch is fantastic and inexpensive (shareware.)

 

[ChrisFromCanada]

Yep what you are looking for is little snitch. google it or dl it on versiontracker.com