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blocking internet ports
Name: JerryTheZ Date: October 25, 2004 at 10:15:43 Pacific OS: Win XP CPU/Ram: 2.0gHz P4, 512MB
Comment:
If you use IPSEC to disable say ports 53 (DNS) 80 (HTTP) and 443 (HTTPS) that should disable pretty much any ability to surf the net. Now, the client machines I'm working with have additional software requiring access to some of these ports, Novell Client to name one. Will blocking these ports through IPSEC only block for browser access, or do they block the ports completely?
Isn't it nice when things just start working correctly.
Name: josh (by jpag3074) Date: October 25, 2004 at 11:59:42 Pacific
Reply:
as far as i know completely
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Response Number 2
Name: door Date: October 25, 2004 at 19:24:04 Pacific
Reply:
IPsec is not the best thing to use for the kind of work you want to do. You cannot block the ports in question and still surf the net. Instead you need to CONTROL the ports. This is what a firewall is designed to do. Lots of good ones to choose from: Outpost, Sygate, ZA....
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