Re: Firewalling

2000-03-30 Thread Kevin
First of all I'd like to thank everyone for pretty much supporting my opinion of the whole matter. I didn't feel that blocking end user ports for them was good practice. And I'd also like to say that I totally agree with this statement from elyograg "You'd be better off spending the money on over

Re: Easier administration (similar to Linuxconf)

2000-03-30 Thread Mailing List
Well... its true... if people wrote enough modules for Linuxconf, then it could, theoretically, have functionality similar to colbat servers. However... even if you don't have all those modules, at least standardize on some common tools, and make the functionality similar, if not better, than colb

Re: mod_ssl help

2000-03-30 Thread Tamas TEVESZ
On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Jaume Teixi wrote: > Once time I've the package mod_ssl and openssl, where can I find the > step by step procedure for build ssl on my apache ? www.modssl.org has a nice documentation -- [-] kazmer at any cost !

mod_ssl help

2000-03-30 Thread Jaume Teixi
Once time I've the package mod_ssl and openssl, where can I find the step by step procedure for build ssl on my apache ? thanks begin:vcard n:Teixi;Jaume tel;fax:972 46 31 14 tel;work:972 46 30 50 x-mozilla-html:TRUE url:http://www.6tems.com org:6TEMS;Ducform, SA adr:;;Pla de l'Estany, s/n;CASSÀ

Re: Easier administration (similar to Linuxconf)

2000-03-30 Thread I. Forbes
Hello All On 29 Mar 00, at 16:20, Smoerk wrote: > > You know the "web-enabled" administration software used by Colbat servers? > > I was wondering if anything for Linux (and hopefully debanized) was > > similar? > > Maybe Webmin (www.webmin.com)? > But why don't you write some scripts, which set

Debian package of bigwig 1.2

2000-03-30 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
In case someone is interested, I've made a Debian package of bigwig 1.2 here: ftp://ftp.internatif.org/pub/debian/UNOFFICIAL/ Debian users can fetch it with apt or by hand. BigWig is a really interesting tool to create interactive Web servers in a high-level fash

Re: Firewalling

2000-03-30 Thread elyograg
At 08:31 PM 3/29/2000 -0700, Kevin wrote: I'm not really sure if I should post this to the isp list or this one, but anyway. I work for a fairly small isp and the management told me they want me to put some sort of firewall in front of the router. Actually their first idea was a firewall in front

Re: Firewalling

2000-03-30 Thread Chris Wagner
I think firewalls are overrated. They only do anything if there are some *unsecured* computers on your network that need protection. It's better to just lock down every machine, that way you're also protected from internal attacks. Really, the only thing I think that justifies them is port block

Re: Firewalling

2000-03-30 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
For one, if you are planning on firewalling the router, your firewall becomes your router. You are going to have to have some type of WAN interface installed on your firewall in order to even have your network work. Secondly, you should be able to secure a cisco router from remote attack. You can

Firewalling

2000-03-30 Thread Kevin
I'm not really sure if I should post this to the isp list or this one, but anyway. I work for a fairly small isp and the management told me they want me to put some sort of firewall in front of the router. Actually their first idea was a firewall in front of the router, then one behind the router