[120866] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: I don't need no stinking firewall!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Lockhart)
Tue Jan 5 16:09:26 2010
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 21:06:30 +0000
From: Simon Lockhart <simon@slimey.org>
To: Brielle Bruns <bruns@2mbit.com>
In-Reply-To: <4B43A80C.5010002@2mbit.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Tue Jan 05, 2010 at 01:58:52PM -0700, Brielle Bruns wrote:
> It's all how you configure and tweak the firewall. Recommending people
> run servers without a firewall is bad advice - do you really want your
> Win2k3 server exposed, SMB, RPC, and all to the world?
I have an answer to that problem, but not everyone would agree with it [1].
Simon
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[1] That said, when I've had no choice but to use a Win2k3 web server, I've
proxy-passed it behind an Apache server.
