RE: OT: Quick book
- From: "Jim Harrison" <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 10:05:43 -0700
criticism:
- you're ugly and your mother dresses you funny.
Jim Harrison
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Kenny Mann" <Kennymann@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 09:33
Subject: [isalist] RE: OT: Quick book
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Sure. Whatever helps the community :-)
... critisim, I'd glady accept it.
Kenny Mann
-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas W Shinder [mailto:tshinder@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 10:52 AM
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Subject: [isalist] RE: OT: Quick book
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Hi Kenny,
I'd be happy to publish your Quick Book on ISAserver.org when
you're done and even help you with the editing prior to publishing it.
HTH,
Tom
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-----Original Message-----
From: Kenny Mann [mailto:Kennymann@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 10:45 AM
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Subject: [isalist] OT: Quick book
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Here is something I've written just becuase I'm tired of
having to basically say the same thing over and over... so instead of
complaining I've decided to do something about it and give people
direction... (plus it's easier to give a URL than type this whole thing
up). This is only something I've written and a couple more sections to
come. I thought I would get yall's opinoin about it. I've decided I
don't want to write something huge or else people go cross eyed, and
some people just want to know what they are getting into before they
jump in.
Things I plan on having:
1. Firewalls * Only one done so far *
2. Mail Server *Plan on writting during lunch today;
Will include Exchange Server, AV, SendMail, Exim, POP/IMAP/Exchange
concepts, will tie in with firewall*
3. Web Server *Tonight; IIS, Apache, PHP/ASP+MySQL
combo's, will tie in with firewall*
4. Hosting your own domain (ties in with all of the
above a little, but gives the basic concept of the internet)
5. Some basic examples (going to include a full setup
for Windows, Linux, and OpenBSD -- and also give a basic checklist of
what people will want to look for)
Anyone think I forgot something critical for the first
little section?
//=========================================
Ok.. I've seen the question over and over on many
mailing list asking "How do I run my own firewall/email
server/website/<insert service here>?". This little article is here to
give a very brief explanation of what is what and to give you a general
direction to take. If anyone has any questions, comments, flames, or
concerns feel free to email me at <insert public address here>
The goal of this little bit is so anyone can read it,
and get a general clue. If you don't understand a word, google it.
That's how you learn in this field.
1. Firewalls
Firewalls are the first line of defense (of hopefully
many) you have against hackers. When I refer to hackers, I mean someone
trying to do something to your data that they shouldn't be. This could
be someone in the internet or someone in your own building. When a
program needs to talk to another computer, it uses "ports" to
communicate. There are many ports commonly used to communicate. A mail
server usually has port 25 open, a web server usually has port 80 open,
IMAP and POP3 (these two services are common methods of getting your
email and putting it on your desktop) run on port 143 and 110. As an
administrator, your job is to choose what people can and can not do. The
most suggestive method is to deny everything, and allow only what you
need. What this means, is lets assume you only want your people to only
be able to surf the internet. You would only allow port 80 (there is
another port for secure HTTP protocol, but right now we are just going
basic). This means that there browser, Internet Explorer usually, but
anything else will not such as FTP, or email. This method is preferred
becuase a user could install something on there machine and that machine
could try to send data to someone outside of your network, assuming your
firewall is setup to block everything excepyt certain ports, this would
hopefully stop that machine from going outside and if you logging level
is turn high enough, you will get reports of someone trying to do
something they weren't supposed to. IPTables, Microsoft ISA Server, and
ZoneAlarm are three different firewalls with the same goal. IPTables is
used in Linux, MS ISA Server and ZoneAlarm are used on Windows.
ZoneAlarm is good to use for personal use but not for business use
becuase it rely's on the user to answer the questions. I, personally,
suggest using Microsoft ISA Server or one of the Linux firewalls
(IPChains, IPTables, etc) becuase of how stout they are. If you are
cheap, then go the Linux solution, if you have money to spare (or have
to use Windows) then I suggest MS ISA Server. MS ISA server is
signifigantly easier to setup than the Linux solutions, or at least that
has been my experiance. If you plan on hosting your own email, website,
or anything connected to the internet, I would always have a firewall on
that computer. It's commonly suggested to have a firewall directly
connected to the internet and have another computer behind that firewall
which hosts your services, with the logic that if something happens to
your firewall the computer behind it is OK or at least has a greater
chance of being OK.
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