From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 15 11:40:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from heorot.1nova.com (heorot.1nova.com [63.105.24.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5737737B408 for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 11:40:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hamellr@1nova.com) Received: by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2CF7018D9; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 11:40:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 242FC18D8; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 11:40:44 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 11:40:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Rick Hamell To: joel2a@yahoo.com Cc: FreeBSD-questions Subject: Re: Justification for using FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20010615085442.00b83960@pop.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I have been using IIS for about over two years now. > It has performed well and if you follow the MS security guidelines, like > unbinding TCP from Netbios, nobody can access the internal netbios network > from the internet as far as I know. > Coupled with the BlackICE firewall with the paranoid option and having > port 80 as the ONLY available open port my site has been virtually > impenetrable. At least nobody that I know has been able to prove they broke > into it! Time to upgrade... :) Blackice now has holes in it too... :) Rick ******************************************************************* Rick's FreeBSD Web page http://heorot.1nova.com/freebsd Ace Logan's Hardware Guide http://www.shatteredcrystal.net/hardware ***FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message