At 23:21 14/03/01 -0500, Bill Royds wrote:
>My simple definition of a firewall is "a device to ensure conformance to
>an network access policy for traffic through it". But this does imply that
>it won't let through traffic contrary to access policy so the reply to
>original question was correct.
There's a caveat though. finding open ports doesn't _necessarily_ break the
security policy.
One could give you the list of server ports inside his company, and still
stay safe, provided his FW
blocks connection attempts at some level.
Note that I know for sure you have a server listening on port 80/tcp inside
your company:)
cheers,
mouss
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