Re: Firewall for Windows 2000 Server?

From: Duane Arnold (darnold92@Insightbb.com)
Date: 04/09/02 

From: "Duane Arnold" <darnold92@Insightbb.com>
Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 04:28:07 GMT

Whatever, Wolfgang the man asked about a firewall recommendation. Not all
this other stuff. One has to assume that if one is in charge of setting up
a server one knows the issues. Let me ask you a question Wolfgang have you
ever used BlackIce? I think I gave the man a solid recommendation on a
software firewall for a server. If you have a recommendation on that issue
make it. Otherwise, go to the MS newsgroup for Servers and go off on them.

"Wolfgang Kueter" <wolfgang@shconnect.de> wrote in message
news:a8tjrt$jvj$1@news.shlink.de...
> Duane Arnold wrote:
>
> > Mike MacSween wrote:
>
> Broken quoting repaired:
>
> >> I'm running Windows 2000 Server on (at the moment) a single machine.
> >> This is to become familiar with the OS before installing an
> >> application at a clients site, who uses W2K Server.
>
> I what kind of environment will the customer's server be used? Which
> services are to be offered to whom? How does the network architecture
> look like? Who are potential attackers? How skilled are these potential
> attackers? These things should be taken into consideration.
>
> >> I may add one machine as a client.
>
> Does that answer my above qustions? No! So forget about that. Find some
> answers instead.
>
> >> What reccomendations does anybody have for a software firewall (or
> >> even an inexpensive hardware one) for this setup.
>
> Nobody can tell, unless you provide some more information. In general
> I'd say that a desktop firewall running on the same machine doesn't
> make sense, these so called firewalls are snake-oil. A separate machine
> for packet-filtering can make sense, especially if the server is
> connected to the internet.
>
> > Get BlackIce Defender it has server and PC versions. It will do what
> > you need it to do, and that's protect the server from intrusion.
>
> Nonsense. The operating system should be able to take care of that. A
> good password policy and a correct installation (run only the
> absolutely neccessary services!) of the OS should be sufficient.
>
>
> Wolfgang
> --
> A foreign body and a foreign mind,
> never welcome in the land of the blind.
> Peter Gabriel, Not one of us, 1980

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