Hello everyone, A couple of weeks ago I mentioned that we were looking at a spam appliance and wanted suggestions as to why SA is better than any appliance. Thank you to all who responded.
We ended up ordering the Barracuda from barracudanetworks.com. It had a 30 trial and we took advantage of it. There were a few network issues with setting it up (which were issues with hostnames on our end) but overall it was very easy to setup. The web based configuration is clean, but a bit confusing and there is no documentation provided either on their corporate site or in the configuration. Virus definitions, rules, etc. are kept very up to date and if desired there is an option to roll back to the previous version of definitions, rules, etc. Once configured there is an option to download your configuration file for easy restoration in the event something happens. There are several other downfalls, but I'll keep my public bashing to a minimum. If you'd like other specifics, email me off list and I'll give you the complete scoop. Now, on to my question. They have some incredible security on this appliance. I'd love to know how they do it! It's only interface is via the web and to connect to it you access port 8000. The documentation says that port 22 should be accessible but the connection is refused. An nmap scan of the device shows that only 2 ports - 25 and 400 are open. My question is how on earth are we able to connect to port 8000 from a web browser, but not able to see that port 8000 is open when nmap scans it? Also, they tech guy from the company was able to connect to port 22, but how? We got a connection refused. For ssh to be able to validate a key it has to at least allow a connection. Does anyone have any idea how they achieve this kind of security? Thanks, Kevin -- K Old <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
