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Re: [arin-announce] IPv4 Address Space (fwd)
From: "Adam Selene" <nospam () vguild com>
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 18:28:55 -0600
and operating system would be safer sitting behind a "firewall" pretty much marked the end of universal end-to-end connectivity, and I don't see it
An OS-level (software) firewall doesn't preclude end-to-end connectivity, and even a per-machine hardware firewall doesn't given it can pass inbound traffic through. Most servers on the Internet are also behind hardware firewalls, and they don't hinder end-to-end connectivity.
Last I checked most "firewall"s donĀ“t make these machines safe, it might make them safer, so only two out of three malwares hit them.
A probably configured firewall will protect a machine against everything but it's user, and therein lies a problem you will likely never solve. Adam
Current thread:
- Re: [arin-announce] IPv4 Address Space (fwd), (continued)
- Re: [arin-announce] IPv4 Address Space (fwd) Bruce Pinsky (Oct 28)
- Re: [arin-announce] IPv4 Address Space (fwd) sthaug (Oct 28)
- Re: [arin-announce] IPv4 Address Space (fwd) Henry Linneweh (Oct 28)
- RE: [arin-announce] IPv4 Address Space (fwd) Kuhtz, Christian (Oct 28)
- Re: [arin-announce] IPv4 Address Space (fwd) Petri Helenius (Oct 28)
- RE: [arin-announce] IPv4 Address Space (fwd) Greg Maxwell (Oct 28)
- RE: [arin-announce] IPv4 Address Space (fwd) Matthew Kaufman (Oct 28)
- RE: [arin-announce] IPv4 Address Space (fwd) Greg Maxwell (Oct 28)
- Re: [arin-announce] IPv4 Address Space (fwd) Petri Helenius (Oct 28)
- Re: [arin-announce] IPv4 Address Space (fwd) Henry Linneweh (Oct 28)
- Re: [arin-announce] IPv4 Address Space (fwd) Adam Selene (Oct 28)
- Re: [arin-announce] IPv4 Address Space (fwd) Valdis . Kletnieks (Oct 28)
- RE: [arin-announce] IPv4 Address Space (fwd) Deepak Jain (Oct 28)
- Re: [arin-announce] IPv4 Address Space (fwd) E.B. Dreger (Oct 30)
- RE: [arin-announce] IPv4 Address Space (fwd) Matthew Kaufman (Oct 28)
- Re: [arin-announce] IPv4 Address Space (fwd) Valdis . Kletnieks (Oct 29)
- Re: [arin-announce] IPv4 Address Space (fwd) Dave Howe (Oct 29)
- Re: [arin-announce] IPv4 Address Space (fwd) Leo Bicknell (Oct 29)