[AG-TECH] Access Grid 3.0 beta1 available !

John Hodrien johnh at comp.leeds.ac.uk
Tue Jan 31 02:44:44 CST 2006


On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, Frank Sweetser wrote:

> Actually, that only covers the firewall running on the local machine.  Far,
> *far* more problematic are external firewalls running on routers, typically in
> a completely different sphere of control than the machine running AG.  These
> tend to be run by people who respond to a request of "Could you please open up
> these 5,000 ports to all addresses?" with derisive laughter.  Dealing with
> these external firewalls becomes much easier when the AG is restricted to a
> small, tightly defined set of ports.

I'd look at this as yet another symptom of a network nazi.  If it's stopping
you doing something useful, they're the ones that need to get a grip.  If AG
used 1 port rather than 5000, would it actually be more secure?

jh

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