Hello All,
I am after some advice, thoughts, advantages, disadvantages on what would be
the best solution for allowing anonymous ftp on my firewall.
Situation:
My network is a typical setup:
INTERNET
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FIREWALL
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MACHINE A
I currently have an archive storage on Machine A that I want to allow access
to as anonymous ftp. I am currently restricted to the above configuration, due
to lack of hardware resource etc etc.
I have two ideas on how to allow access from the net to this machine.
1. Setup the anonymous ftp server on Machine A and setup the appropiate
entries in /etc/netperm table to fire up plug-gw to pass through the
connection to machine A.
2. Setup the anonymous ftp server on the firewall and NFS mount machine A's
file system onto the firewall. This will obviously stop access to an
internal machine via plug-gw but what about all the security concerns
with NFS.
Has anyone done any of the above approaches ?. Is there a better way ?.
I await your comments and feedback.
Thanks
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MDIS - McDonnell Information Systems Pty Ltd Fax : +612 4392439
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