of course you are reading from the new edition, yes?
Thanks,
Ron DuFresne
On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, mouss wrote:
> At 06:46 27/11/00 -0500, Frederick M Avolio wrote:
> >At 03:29 PM 11/27/00 +1030, Ben Nagy wrote:
> >>I'd love to see a coherent and comprehensive history of firewall
> >>development - there's so much argument about the very meaning of the terms
> >>involved that I've never really been able to sort out the assertions of the
> >>various pioneers into a chronology. If you come up with something good I (at
> >>least) would be interested in reading it through.
> >
> >How about reading the papers. They are nearly all available on the Internet.
>
> I guess Ben was talking about more detailed but yet
> coherent/general/precise/...
> papers/books/...
>
> Your papers are nice, but they are short. yes, that make'em readable
> easily, but
> we insomniac people love to have long papers/books to read :)
>
>
> The BIF book (I mean "Building Internet FWs") is good, but in my opinion is
> too old
> and contains concepts that are of no interest or are no more true. the
> discussion
> about proxies assume those old non transparent proxies, als, the book talks a
> lot about old protocols that are seldom used, but not about those new
> frustrating
> inventions that seem to have been designed with anti-security in mind/
> (that doesn't make it a bad book, I am simply looking for perfection:)
>
> cheers,
> mouss
>
>
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