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Re: "firewalls are obsolete" rant
From: ArkanoiD <ark () eltex net>
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:03:04 +0300
nuqneH, Well, i have an irc proxy that may block or pass dcc, what software do you use on that firewall? On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 07:09:27AM -0500, Jim Seymour wrote:
"Hawkins, Michael" <MHawkins () TULLIB COM> wrote:Now here's a rant http://patrioticduo.blogspot.com/[snip] "Partitioning is coming?" On my network it's already here--in a wy. Coincidentally, just yesterday afternoon an end-user got himself blackholed on one of the firewalls for tripping over a simple IDS that didn't like him poking at port 6667. Turns out he wanted to see if he could IRC from the $work network. Then he tried to talk me into allowing him to do so. "Absolutely not," says I, "not using that electronic petri dish you call an ``operating system.''" Then he suggested I could limit him to using a text-based IRC client. "How am I going to accomplish that," I asked, "being as you have administrator access to your machine?" He actually has what sounds like a reasonable, work-related reason for wanting to access a technically-related IRC network/channel. I told him if he wanted to use a Unix/Linux client approved by I.T., we could discuss it. But no client/desktop systems, particularly those from a Certain Large Software Company, and *certainly* no client/desktop systems over which the end-user has admin rights. I wonder if there's a *good* IRC proxy out there that will block DCC for me...? Jim _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () honor icsalabs com http://honor.icsalabs.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards
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Current thread:
- RE: "firewalls are obsolete" rant Paul Melson (Feb 01)
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- Re: "firewalls are obsolete" rant ArkanoiD (Feb 01)
- RE: "firewalls are obsolete" rant Luke Butcher (Feb 01)
- RE: "firewalls are obsolete" rant Paul Melson (Feb 01)
- Re: "firewalls are obsolete" rant Brian Loe (Feb 02)
- Re: "firewalls are obsolete" rant Paul D. Robertson (Feb 02)
- Re: "firewalls are obsolete" rant ArkanoiD (Feb 02)
- RE: "firewalls are obsolete" rant Paul Melson (Feb 02)
- Re: "firewalls are obsolete" rant Brian Loe (Feb 02)
- Re: "firewalls are obsolete" rant Jim Seymour (Feb 02)
- Re: "firewalls are obsolete" rant Brian Loe (Feb 02)
- Re: "firewalls are obsolete" rant Brian Loe (Feb 01)
- Re: "firewalls are obsolete" rant Rajeev Gupta (Feb 02)