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Subject: Re: Reuters 3000 & Firewall-1
From: Bruno Raoult <br @ ota . societe-generale . fr>
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 09:18:17 +0100 (MET)
To: firewall digest <firewalls-digest @ GreatCircle . COM>

Hi,

Someone talked in this mailing list about the port problem between
Reuters-3000 services and Firewall-1 services (#156 & 157).

Unhapilly I lost the report, and I'd like to ask some questions,
as:
	- Is there a security problem with this configuration?
	- Reuters-3000 uses Full IP from customer site to Reuters
	  servers. Reuters does not want to give me details about
	  their internal security. Does someone knows something about it?
	- Reuters uses a Real-time Unix (QNX) as session server (=gateway).
	  Does someone knows about the security of this machine?
	- The QNX IP stack has been re-written for Reuters. Any
	  information?
	- Reuters needs the customer to use RIP protocol. I think it
	  may be quite dangerous, as Reuters may get information about
	  our real network
	- Reuters "RBR" service needs to share NT disks from Reuters
	  side to customer side. I think this implies the use of "considered
	  dangerous" services as 137/138/139. Is there a risk there?

Thank you for your help.


PS. Similar problems occur with Bloomberg service. Does someone uses it?


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