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Date:      Tue, 17 Jun 2003 09:08:42 -0500
From:      Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: restrictive ipfw ruleset and ftp
Message-ID:  <87smq8lrth.fsf@pooh.honeypot.net>
In-Reply-To: <20030617121346.GA80594@athomson.prv.au.itouchnet.net> (Andrew Thomson's message of "Tue, 17 Jun 2003 22:13:46 %2B1000")
References:  <20030617121346.GA80594@athomson.prv.au.itouchnet.net>

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At 2003-06-17T12:13:46Z, Andrew Thomson <ajthomson@optushome.com.au> writes:

> i have a list of ports that i let my users go out on: 80, 22, 143, 443 etc
> etc..

Out of curiosity, do you have control over the set of machines that your
users are connecting to?  I.e., are they uploading to your own FTP server at
a colo site?  If so, you might consider dropping FTP altogether in favor of
SFTP.  It's radically easier to firewall; you just open a single TCP port.
You also get decent authentication and end-to-end encryption.  Just a
thought.
=2D-=20
Kirk Strauser
In Googlis non est, ergo non est.

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