I don't need no stinking firewall!

Simon Lockhart simon at slimey.org
Tue Jan 5 21:06:30 UTC 2010


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.




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