On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 09:30:52PM -0500, Ron Foster at Baldor-IS wrote:
Everyone,
Thanks for the good responses. Right now My Boss and his Boss are
talking to the security guys. I have told them some of what you all
have told me. It could be useful.
I highly recommend asking what level
Hello listers,
Our company has recently been acquired by another company. We are at
the point of having to get our two networks to talk to each other.
Before we can do that, we have to comply with certain security rules.
One of them being that the mainframe cannot be exposed to the internet.
On 3/30/2011 at 11:56 AM, Ron Foster at Baldor-IS rfos...@baldor.com
wrote:
Is this a common restriction? That is, you have to have your DMZ based
web servers running on some other platform so that your mainframe is not
exposed to the internet.
I won't say it's _not_ common, but it's a
Mark is right. It's not a valid restriction.
speculation
The rule was likely put in place by someone with only MVS mainframe
knowledge.
/speculation
Even so, there are shops which had mainframes on the public internet
15+ years ago and there are shops *today* with mainframes on the
public
On Wednesday, 03/30/2011 at 12:03 EDT, Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
rfos...@baldor.com wrote:
Our company has recently been acquired by another company. We are at
the point of having to get our two networks to talk to each other.
Before we can do that, we have to comply with certain security
Not a valid restriction.
Open Systems and Network types only run a single stack in a box (vast majority
of the time).
Here, they still can't grasp that I have some 70 stacks running on a single
box. (but there is only 2 ethernet cables...so you can't have 70 stacks)
From their viewpoint,
On 3/30/11 8:56 AM, Ron Foster at Baldor-IS rfos...@baldor.com wrote:
We have a couple of zLinux web servers that are running in a couple of
z/VM guests that are connected to our DMZ. The new folks say this is a
show stopper as far as hooking up the two networks.
This is a political decision,
Everyone,
Thanks for the good responses. Right now My Boss and his Boss are
talking to the security guys. I have told them some of what you all
have told me. It could be useful.
Richard, Thanks for the offer to help. We shall see how things progress
from here.
Thanks,
Ron
On 3/30/2011
