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Re: Protecting publicly reacheable servers (e.g. HTTP)?


From: Frederick M Avolio <fred () avolio com>
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 08:11:49 -0500

At 02:28 PM 11/22/01 +0100, Patrick M. Hausen wrote:
My reasoning has always been that - given the state of
firewall products today - a static packet filter that
blocks all but port 80 would be the most appropriate
solution to offer some sort of protection to the server
machine.

I agree, plus disable all services running on the webserver except for httpd.

Fred

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