[4859] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: Packet Filters or Proxy Firewalls?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dennis Glatting)
Thu Mar 20 17:40:30 1997
From: Dennis Glatting <dennis.glatting@plaintalk.bellevue.wa.us>
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 97 09:20:24 -0800
To: Vinnie Vedi Dolavimus <sfuze@escape.com>
cc: Simon Yeo <syeo@cs.stanford.edu>, www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Reply-To: dennis.glatting@plaintalk.bellevue.wa.us
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 20:46:36 -0500 (EST)
From: Vinnie Vedi Dolavimus <sfuze@escape.com>
> First things first -- having a packet filtering router alone is
> really about as much security as having no security at all.
>
Not true. Packet filters can block Portmapper, NIS, NetInfo,
and other packets from the Internet thereby substantially
improving security, which is *much* better than none at all.
-dpg
