RE: How Good Is the Windows Server 2003 Basic Firewall?

  • From: "John Tolmachoff \(Lists\)" <johnlist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "'[ISAserver.org Discussion List]'" <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 02:13:38 -0700

I just had a thought. Some one do a port scan on a SBS server without any
firewall configured and compare to the list he listed.

John Tolmachoff MCSE CSSA
Engineer/Consultant
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas W Shinder [mailto:tshinder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 7:24 PM
> To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List]
> Subject: [isalist] RE: How Good Is the Windows Server 2003 Basic Firewall?
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> 
> Hi David,
> 
> It is an interesting question. I've never used the built in Windows
> Server 2003 firewall because I've always run ISA Server on edge Windows
> Server 2003 machines. From what I've heard, its pretty limited and
> doesn't even allow you to publish services on the internal network. What
> means its guys a powerful feature included with the Windows Server 2003
> RRAS NAT. Even the lowly Windows XP/98 ICS allows you to do this when
> ICF is enabled. However, I haven't tested this myself, so its hearsay
> right now.
> 
> HTH,
> Tom
> 
> Thomas W Shinder
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> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Moisan [mailto:dmoisan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 8:37 PM
> To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List]
> Subject: [isalist] RE: How Good Is the Windows Server 2003 Basic
> Firewall?
> 
> 
> http://www.ISAserver.org
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> 
> At 03:58 PM 9/23/2003 -0700, you wrote:
> >http://www.ISAserver.org
> >
> >Well now, there are lots of people down on first avenue that
> >Like having their port open.  An open port is an invitation
> >To the latest block party.
> 
> On another note, I'm surprised there is no logging ability for the
> native
> Win2K3 firewall.  The ICF for Windows XP *does* logging (in an out of
> the
> way file) and I had thought it would do so for 2K3 since it is basically
> 
> "XP Server" (noting how many MS utilities say, "runs on 2K3 *or* XP
> SP1".)
> 
> Take care,
> 
> Dave
> 
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