Re: Any public port forwarding servers available ?


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. :)

I agree !!! But I doubt my corporate security admins would allow me as
a special case -- even If I don't exhibit the stupidity of accessing
harmful attachments.

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