[H-GEN] fowarding port 80

[Nikolai Lusan]

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On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Robert Kearey wrote:

> Yeah - but what's the point of redirecting port 80 in such a manner, if
> not to use a transparent caching proxy?

It does not just go for port 80 - he might want to redirect port 25 or
port 6667 or any other port for that matter - it is simply a way of
having a machine on a private lan provide services to the world. I this
case I am willing to bet it puts a linux box between the world and a
machine that is actually running IIS, this way none of those nasty
remote access exploits that let people "own" ms machine become moot
points.

> Riddle me that!
enough of a riddle?


Nikolai



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