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If you have a question, looking here to see whether its. Dont send your. questions about firewalls to the FAQ maintainers. The maintainers welcome input and comments on the contents of this. FAQ. Comments related to the FAQ should be addressed to. Before you send us mail, please be sure to see sections. For Whom Is the FAQ Written Firewalls have come a long way from the days when this FAQ started. Theyve gone from being highly customized systems administered by. Firewalls are no longer. We wrote this FAQ for computer systems developers and administrators. We have tried to be fairly inclusive, making room for the newcomers. If you find that. We provide references. We focus predominately on network firewalls, but host or personal firewalls. Before Sending Mail. Note that this collection of frequently asked questions is a result of. The firewalls faq address is not a help. If youre trying to use an application that says that its. If you want to know how to get rid of your firewall because you. We. cannot help you. Really. Who can help you Good question. That will depend on what exactly. If none of these. We dont know. The provider of the software youre using. The provider of the hardware appliance youre using. The provider of the network service youre using. That is, if. youre on AOL, ask them. If youre trying to use something on a. Where Can I find the Current Version of the FAQ The FAQ can be found on the Web at. Its also posted monthly to. Posted versions are archived in all the usual places. Unfortunately. the version posted to Usenet and archived from that version lack the. Where Can I Find Non English Versions of the FAQ Several translations are available. If youve done a translation and. Norwegian. Translation by Jon Haugsand. Contributors. Many people have written helpful suggestions and thoughtful commentary. Were grateful to all contributors. Wed like to thank afew by name. Keinanen Vesa, Allen Leibowitz, Brent Chapman, Brian Boyle, D. Clyde Williamson, Richard Reiner, Humberto Ortiz Zuazaga, and Theodore Hope. Copyright and Usage. Copyright 1. 99. Marcus J. Ranum. Copyright 1. Matt Curtin. Copyright 2. Paul D. Robertson. All rights. reserved. This document may be used, reprinted, and redistributed. Translations of the complete text from the original. English to other languages are also explicitly allowed. Translators. may add their names to the Contributors section. Background and Firewall Basics. Before being able to understand a complete discussion of firewalls. What is a network firewall A firewall is a system or group of systems that enforces an access. The actual means by which. Some firewalls. place a greater emphasis on blocking traffic, while others emphasize. Probably the most important thing to recognize. If. you dont have a good idea of what kind of access you want to allow or. Its also important to. Administrators for firewalls managing the connectivity for a large. Why would I want a firewall The Internet, like any other society, is plagued with the kind of. Some people try to get real work. Internet, and others have sensitive or proprietary data. Usually, a firewalls purpose is to keep the jerks. Many traditional style corporations and data centers have computing. In a case where. a companys policies dictate how data must be protected, a firewall is. Frequently, the hardest part of hooking to the Internet, if youre a. A firewall provides not only real. Lastly, a firewall can act as your corporate ambassador to the. Internet. Many corporations use their firewall systems as a place to. Several of these systems have. Internet service structure e. UUnet. uu. net, whitehouse. Note that while this is historically true, most organizations now place public information on a Web server, often protected by a firewall, but not normally on the firewall itself. What can a firewall protect againstSome firewalls permit only email traffic through them, thereby. Other firewalls provide less strict protections. Generally, firewalls are configured to protect against unauthenticated. This, more than. anything, helps prevent vandals from logging into machines on your. More elaborate firewalls block traffic from the outside to. The firewall can protect you against any type of. Firewalls are also important since they can provide a single choke. Unlike in a situation. Firewalls provide an important logging and auditing function. Because of this, firewall logs are critically important data. They can be used as evidence in a court of law in most countries. You should safeguard, analyze and protect yoru firewall logs accordingly. This is an important point providing this choke point can serve. That means anytime you have a change in zones. A company. rarely has only an outside gate and no receptionist or security staff. If there are layers of security on. What cant a firewall protect against Firewalls cant protect against attacks that dont go through the. Many corporations that connect to the Internet are very. Unfortunately for those concerned, a magnetic tape. DVD, or USB flash drives can just as effectively be used. Many organizations that are terrified at a management. Internet connections have no coherent policy about how dial in. Its silly to build a six foot. For a firewall to work. Firewall policies must be realistic and reflect the. For example, a site with top. Internet in the first place, or the. Another thing a firewall cant really protect you against is traitors. While an industrial spy might export. FAX machine, or Compact Disc. CDs are a. far more likely means for information to leak from your organization. Firewalls also cannot protect you against stupidity. Users who reveal sensitive information over the telephone are good. Before deciding this isnt a problem in your. If the people on the help desk believe. Firewalls cant protect against tunneling over most. There. are no magic bullets and a firewall is not an excuse to not implement. Tunneling bad things over HTTP, SMTP, and other. Security isnt. fire and forget. Lastly, firewalls cant protect against bad things being allowed through them. For instance, many Trojan Horses use the Internet Relay Chat IRC protocol. IRC server. If you allow any internal system to connect to any external. What about viruses and other malware Firewalls cant protect very well against things like viruses or. There are too many ways of encoding. In other. words, a firewall cannot replace security consciousness on the part of. In general, a firewall cannot protect against a. This form of attack has. Outlook, and Web browsers like Internet Explorer. Organizations that are deeply concerned about viruses should implement. Rather than only trying to screen. Blanketing your network with virus scanning software will protect. CDs, modems, and the Internet. Trying to block viruses at the firewall will only protect against. Internet. Virus scanning at the firewall or e mail. Nevertheless, an increasing number of firewall vendors are offering. Theyre probably only useful for naive. Windows on Intel executable programs and. There are many. firewall based approaches for dealing with problems like the. ILOVEYOU worm and related attacks, but these are really. Do not count on any protection from attackers with this feature. Since ILOVEYOU went around, weve seen at least a half dozen. Melissa, Happy. 99, Code Red, and Badtrans. B. all of which were happily passed through many virus detecting. A strong firewall is never a substitute for sensible software that. Do not think that. In fact, it isnt true. Further consideration of this topic would be. Will IPSEC make firewalls obsolete Some have argued that this is the case. Before pronouncing such a.