Re: question about proxy firewall
In article <[🔎] 20030926024614.GB2885@tao.merseine.nu> you wrote:
> The point of a protocol-proxy is that you want to provide services to
> the outside world, but you don't trust your server software to be robust
> against protocol-level attacks (buffer overflows, primarily).
It is also the other way around. Clients which you cant trust to be stable
enough. Typical example are web browsers which display ActiveX.
> Since one
> of the points of Debian is to fix bugs in software, that's not
> particularly a direction that's interested anyone recently.
This is not true for Organisations running Desktops by a commercial vendor
and Firewalls based on Debian.
> However, the tools are in place to build your own. Generically, any
> protocol can be diverted to another program by the packet filtering
> system;
A small List can be found on http://www.freefire.org/, but it is not Debian specific.
> Look at packages simpleproxy, stone, totd, squid, xfwp, and in fact
> everything you get from an "apt-cache search proxy".
... and I may need to add some of these :)
Greetings
Bernd
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