From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 10 13:43:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from maile.telia.com (maile.telia.com [194.22.190.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1A4E37B969 for ; Wed, 10 May 2000 13:43:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from james.wilde@telia.com) Received: from ents02 (t2o90p99.telia.com [195.67.216.219]) by maile.telia.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id WAA13594 for ; Wed, 10 May 2000 22:43:52 +0200 (CEST) From: "James A Wilde" To: "FreeBSD-questions" Subject: Offtopic - DMZ Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 22:44:17 +0200 Message-ID: <000501bfbac0$824d62a0$8208a8c0@iqunlimited.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sorry to be off-topic, but I'd like to get the team's opinion of the meaning of the term DMZ. I've always assumed that this refers to the Internet Service lan on a triple-homed computer, where the three interfaces are directed to a) the - hopefully - secure private network, b) the protected but not fully so IS lan (DMZ) and c) the Internet, where the bad guys are. However, I keep seeing references which indicate that people see the Internet as the DMZ. I can't see that there is anything demilitarized about the Internet... So what's the answer? mvh/regards James To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message