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Subject: Re: firewall configs
From: John Gateley <gateley @ jriver . jriver . com>
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 08:58:10 -0600 (CST)
To: Frank Willoughby <frankw @ in . net>
Cc: kfrisco @ shrike . depaul . edu, firewalls @ GreatCircle . com
In-reply-to: <9610310046 . AA02983 @ su1 . in . net>

On Wed, 30 Oct 1996, Frank Willoughby wrote:
> At 10:58 AM 10/30/96 -0600, you wrote:
> ...  Putting the Web & Mail Servers outside
> of the firewall puts the servers at a very high risk...

Putting web servers outside the firewall is a fairly common practice
I believe. They are "sacrificial lambs", with good backups for restoring
them when they have been hacked. Perhaps the mail server here is
based on a similar idea.

j
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John Gateley, gateley @
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