Disabling the Outbound filter that allows your Webserver to access the Internet should not affect its ability to respond to inbound service requests. Sounds like you're on the right track.
Mike Burden Lynk Systems http://www.lynk.com (616)532-4985 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----Original Message----- > From: Brian Fort (Mushkin) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, April 13, 2002 10:31 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [gb-users] Outbound Filter for PSN > > > I have a little confusion about what would happen to my web > server if I > disabled the Outbound filter for the PSN. Would it only > prevent outbound > requests initiated on my PSN's web server from working, or > would it also > prevent the web server from responding to inbound requests? > > If it prevents the web server from responding to inbound > requests as well, > is there any way to make it so that only outbound connections > initiated on > the web server are blocked? I ask this because I don't want any other > administrators here to do anything stupid like using Internet > Explorer or > Outlook Express on PSN servers. Plus I was recently at a > conference that > suggested blocking outbound connections initiated from a DMZ > computer as > much as possible. > > I realize I would still have to allow outbound DNS requests. > -Brian > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To subscribe to the digest version first unsubscribe, then > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Archive of the last 1000 messages: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the digest version first unsubscribe, then e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive of the last 1000 messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
