Re: Why you have hardware firewalls

"MyndPhlyp" <nobody@homeright.now> wrote in message
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> "Darko Gavrilovic" <darkogAThushmailDOTcom> wrote in message
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>> your methodology may work - if you knew for sure 110% where you target
>> customers/visitors are connecting from. but what information makes you so
>> sure? and how do you know you aren't losing customers?
>>
>> the way i see it, your site is either on the internet and public or it's
>> on intranet and private. if it's private, then by all means place behind
>> F/W and filter to your own corp. subnets.
>>
>> but if it's public, it's public. where is your reasoning to adjust IP
>> filter to target audience connections? the site is in english, so you
>> will just assume that anyone who can't read english won't visit - so you
>> will filter out non-english speaking countries?
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>> also, relying on IP filtering is a little weak. as we all know, IP's can
>> be spoofed. or even simpler, you can find a proxy from allowed IP and use
>> it to get in. a guy who has targeted *your* site for an

   You are very right. There are sites that have lists
of these proxies, and that are updated almost
constantly. As I have said down-thread, I used this
method last year to get audio streams of the Olympics
from Eurosport and the BBC. It was just a matter of
looking up in the lists of open proxies, and finding
one in the area that was allowed to receive the
streams, and then configuring Real Player and
Windows Media to use thes proxies.
Received on Thu Sep 29 20:05:10 2005