Re: Firewalls and Research

[Eric Pancer <epancer () SECURITY DEPAUL EDU>]

Clonts, Neal D. (HSC) wrote on Wed, 2004-09-29 at 11:10:56 -0500...

> We currently use several firewalls on campus including our border.  We
> prevent all inbound except port 80 and eventually we would like to proxy the
> traffic inbound on port 80.  At first we were worried about the response
> that we would receive by doing this, but the response was very limited.  We
> spent most of time teaching the researchers and scientists on how
> applications communicate and guiding them on how to make requests for
> access.

So my mail will get bounced because you don't let 25/tcp in? :)

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