that is a firewall (a simple one, but still a firewall)
David Lang
On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Luc Amouriaux wrote:
> Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2000 18:40:50 +0000
> From: Luc Amouriaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Baribault, Gary" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Hey, I DON'T WANT a firewall in front of my network!
>
> But all this kind of abuses would just have been avoided by a simple access
> list on the internet access router, no?
>
> At 16:23 31/01/00 -0500, you wrote:
> >I just resolved a problem for a customer here that will go unnamed. The
> >customer had a PDC, an HTTP server and two FTP servers as well as an AIX
> >box and the workstations connected to an ISDN link (128K) with legal
> >addresses. The sysadmin kept having to add disks to the server but never
> >had the time to check where the space was going. I'm sure all of you can
> >guess. I put a firewall in the way and changed all internal addresses to
> >private (172.16-32) and had them change the passwords on the inside. The
> >firewall log went ballistic, and I was getting 300 - 500 attempts a day
> >from, 95% German hackers (I assume Warez) as well as some U.S. Military and
> >corporate servers (which where compromised of course). The customer now
> >finds that there is lots of space on the server and WOW is 128K FAST!
> >
> > I explained to the customer that they where legally responsible
> >for the pornography and pirated software that was distributed by their
> >server. They where amazed that all that was going on without their
> >knowledge, and I explained that it was to the advantage of the hackers and
> >Warez operators that they keep the infected servers running as well as
> >possible.
>
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