Yeah, I meant demilitarized zone (DMZ) in this reference...I didn't even know there was another meaning to it!
I'm beginning to wonder if having a webserver on the inside is just overkill in our situation. Sensitive data is housed in a SQL server that would not be in the DMZ, though there might be some PDFs or other types of documents they would want protected. -----Original Message----- From: Adrocknaphobia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 2:41 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: CF and DMZs I think we are talking about DMZ in the terms of Demilitarized Zone. Which does comes from the military term popularized in Korea. A true DMZ means that your webservers are on a seperate part of the network where all port traffic is allowed. Or in most cases, it means a less secure part of the network where internet traffic is allowed. Hopefully you would still have a firewall between the internet and the DMZ to only allow certain port traffic (like 80). So any server that _is not_ in the DMZ is inaccesible from the internet. CF has really nothing to do with the DMZ at all. A very common setup is to put your webservers in the 'DMZ' and your database servers on a more secure network outside of the DMZ. Your DMZ firewall should only allow port 80 traffic from the internet. Meaning your databases server cannot be accessed directly from the internet. However if you now have two seperate CF servers, MM would appericate it if you bought the additional license. It doesn't matter if the server is available online or not. wikipedia definition: In terms of computer security a demilitarized zone (DMZ) is a network area that sits between an organisation's internal network and an external network, usually the Internet. The DMZ allows contained hosts to provide services to the external network, while protecting the internal network from possible intrusions into those hosts. In layman's terms a DMZ is like a one way street. -Adam ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:202265 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
