[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The point of a protocol-proxy is that you want to provide services to > the outside world, but you don't trust your server software to be robust > against protocol-level attacks (buffer overflows, primarily). Since one > of the points of Debian is to fix bugs in software, that's not > particularly a direction that's interested anyone recently. well, there were threads in this mailing list about breaking into an updated woody hosts, so I guess that another layer of security couldn't harm...
> > However, the tools are in place to build your own. Generically, any > protocol can be diverted to another program by the packet filtering > system; it's trivial to send things on to other computers, too. There > are lots of HTTP, FTP, SMTP, DNS, X... proxies available, some of which > have been built with security in mind and others with other goals. > > Look at packages simpleproxy, stone, totd, squid, xfwp, and in fact > everything you get from an "apt-cache search proxy". thanx Bye -- Haim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
