Agreed that FWs will run anything you want. I am talking about what is
needed for firewalling, what services could be provided by a FW. Shares
well you do not need shares on a firewall and obviously shares could be a
threat to security. I do not believe that the DNS running on the FW setup
as caching-only nameserver is a threat. It provides services to the secure
network but do not provide any info to the outside, that's what I was
assuming he was doing with the DNS just to answer your question!
Jean
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Joe Matusiewicz
> Sent: Friday, July 23, 1999 9:53 AM
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> Subject: RE: Share on the firewall
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>
> At 09:31 AM 7/23/99 -0400, Jean Morissette wrote:
> >Well shares is pretty "odd" yes but DNS if it is for caching
> only I believe
> >most firewalls will do it. Please correct me if I am wrong!
> >
>
> Most firewalls will run basically any service you want. But I've got this
> notion that you should not be running any unnecessary services on the
> firewall itself. To me, split DNS means a server inside and one outside
> that is not the firewall.
>
> -- Joe
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