Re: Any public port forwarding servers available ?
- From: Chuck <skilover_nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 17:22:48 GMT
Jonas wrote:
Do you have a computer at home with broadband? Run an ssh server there.
It's easier to set up than you might think. And it's also free.
Well. That's how I used to always do it while during my college days --
where our school network administrator used to randomly block ports
without any rationale at all and without any good reason. I guess he
was just trying to flaunt his average level networking expertise before
the graduate students...
Anways I don't have a Live IP host anymore with me.
However a couple of network security manager voiced their opinion that
doing so sort of would be -- compromise -- on the overall network
security. I think they might be right.
How? It doesn't grant any additional access to the network from outside.
It just forwards a port from behind the FW to wherever. If anything it
puts your home computer at increased risk but even that is near 0 if you
lock down the sshd server properly.
About the only risk I can think of is someone forwarding to their email
server or an ftp site and downloading infected software. And if someone
is opening unscanned, unknown attachments downloaded from an email
account through a tunnel, well, the same could happen on the official
corporate email account. That's not a result of port forwarding but
rather of stupidity. Common sense is a good thing. Just wish it were
more common. :)
.
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