Re: Open Port 80?

From: Jeff Cochran (jcochran.nospam_at_naplesgov.com)
Date: 06/16/03 

Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 14:11:27 GMT

On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 16:59:36 -0400, "-Draino-" <earthuser@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>I am running IIS 5.1 and I have an internal web page the the whole family
>uses. I just found out from grc.com that port 80 is wide open. I'm not sure
>how to close port 80 to the outside world but keep it available to my
>intranet.

Block port 90/HTTP in your firewall or don't forward it on the router.

>I am using a Microsoft MN-500 wireless router and the whole network is
>wireless. I have used the IIS lockdown tool and URL scan but it seems that
>when I do that I lose the counter that I installed using FrontPage 2002.

You need to configure to use the FP extensions when you run the
lockdown tool, or edit the URLScan.ini to accomodate them. Try some
of these:

URLScan:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;318290
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;307976
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;817807
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;325864

>I want to make it so that I can control outside access easily but at the
>same time make the internal always available.

That's the function of a firewall.

Jeff

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