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> Greetings,
>
> I believe I have an adequate understanding of how proxy works and why it
is
> beneficial to implement into ones network security solution.
>
> But, I have been unable to find a good source on the benefits of and
> practical implementations of a reverse proxy. I have bee told by
"security
> consultants" that my network should have a reverse proxy, but are unable
to
> give me a clearly defined answer as to why. (personally, I think the
people
> I have been dealing with are just security salesmen, and don't really
know
> what the hell they are techno-babbling about).
>
> Could someone give me a point of reference to perform further research,
> and/or give me a basic overview of its practical application?
>
> Many thanks,
>
hi,
a proxy server/service normally uses acl's (access control lists) for users
and groups of users. a proxy also can cache webpages for internal lan
users- that way, they don't have to go all the way to the net to get to
'yahoo's homepage' all the time. a 'reverse proxy' is a proxy server
service that is listening on behalf of another service (ex. proxy's ext nic
interface listening on behalf of an internal http server)
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