[lug] logs

Sean Reifschneider jafo at tummy.com
Mon Jul 30 22:12:30 MDT 2001


On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 03:03:57PM -0600, D. Stimits wrote:
>this feature as the very first command run. And the machine doing the
>final receive (e.g.,
>firewall->ISP->log_machine_firewalled_from_firewall) can be totally
>blocked from direct access by the firewall. One could even conceive of

Wow, you're recommending that having the log machine accessable by your
ISPs machines would increase security?  In this scenerio, I wouldn't be
suprised if the mail log machine were compromised *BEFORE* the firewall in
question.  ;-/

Sean
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Sean Reifschneider, Inimitably Superfluous <jafo at tummy.com>
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