I have run the Shields Up attack against my machine and it shows the
STN firewall as having either all ports closed or undetectable. That is
how they are set. Looks good to me.
Chris
"Richard G. Samuels" wrote:
>
> I had a customer buy an $800 "firewall" box based on the salesman's
> representation that NAT devices like STN are not secure because an
> intruder can spoof an internal IP address. I asked him if he knew the
> difference between a used car salesman and a computer salesman. (There
> are two answers: 1. The used car salesman knows when he's lieing. 2.
> About 2 weeks.).
>
> Is there any conceivable way this could be done?
>
> john burton wrote:
> >
> > I posted my results of 'nmap' some time back. Showed 25 (smtp) 80 (http) and 53
>(nameserver) open here; all of which were expected.
> >
> > STN does do well as a firewall!
> >
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> > john burton
> > Midwest City, Oklahoma
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
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> > Sent: Sunday, August 06, 2000 13:47
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> > A friend of mine who works as a "Security Consultant" and programmer for
> > a local e-company decided to try to have some fun with me and ran a few
> > of his testing proggies like nessus on me. He was *very* surprised that
> > i seemed nearly impregnable!!!
> >
> > lets hear it for STN! :)\
> >
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