From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 3 12:09:27 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0262E16A41A for ; Wed, 3 Oct 2007 12:09:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Stephen.Clark@seclark.us) Received: from smtpout08.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net (smtpout08-04.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net [64.202.165.12]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B995D13C46A for ; Wed, 3 Oct 2007 12:09:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Stephen.Clark@seclark.us) Received: (qmail 13666 invoked from network); 3 Oct 2007 12:09:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (24.144.77.243) by smtpout08-04.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net (64.202.165.12) with ESMTP; 03 Oct 2007 12:09:25 -0000 Message-ID: <47038673.9020403@seclark.us> Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 08:09:23 -0400 From: Stephen Clark User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-22smp i686; en-US; m18) Gecko/20010110 Netscape6/6.5 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: are DMZ's out of vogue X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Stephen.Clark@seclark.us List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 12:09:27 -0000 Hi List, Our in house network configuration is using FreeBSD for our firewall. We currently have it setup with 3 interfaces a public, private and DMZ. We our moving to a new facility and our network engineer says nobody is using DMZs any more and wants to just do NAT redirects from our FreeBSD firewall to servers on the private network. These servers were on the DMZ in our current configuration. Does this make sense? Is it true that DMZ's have fallen out of vogue? Sorry for the off topic post. Thanks for any input, Steve -- "They that give up essential liberty to obtain temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Ben Franklin) "The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases." (Thomas Jefferson)