Re: Proxy on unusual port
From: Duane Arnold (notme_at_notme.com)
Date: 10/05/03
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Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2003 23:36:57 GMT
"Charles Newman" <charlesnewman1@spamkiller.comcast.net.nospam> wrote in
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>
>
> Well, I have since configured Tiny Personal Firewall
> to restrict access from within my own network, and
> tests on on the proxy checker at freeproxy.ru show it
> to be closed
> I use Tiny Personal Firewall. It has the facilities to
> monitor what is going on and allow me to close my
> proxy. Hardware firewalls do not have the monitoring
> and alerting that software firewalls, like Tiny, have.
>
Yeah, you can use Tiny to alert on the outbound a good thing. But the
fact remains that if the router was setting in front of the machines, it
would block *unsolicited everything* inbound to the network. Therefore,
the machines behind the router would not have to deal with the
scans/attacks.
The machine's O/S, proxy, Tiny, and anything else would not need to react
using the machine's resources to stop the scans/attacks slowing the
machine down from doing other things.
Some routers do have the capability to stop outbound too. But it's
probably preferred by most in a home networking environment to let a host
based FW solution handle that task behind the router.
It seems to me that it's a better solution to have a appliance in front
of the machines protecting the network as a gateway or for a single
machine not part of a network, than it is to have a machine doing it with
the vulnerable MS O/S of any flavor directly connected to the Internet,
IMHO.
Duane :)
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