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Windows Firewalls Lacking
Mark Burnett, 2005-03-15

For something as simple as a firewall for Windows servers, a good solution just doesn't exist.

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Checkpoint FW-1 2005-03-16
Anonymous
Host-level firewalls are snakeoil. Configure your server to only listen on ports you want it to serve on. Use DMZ level firewalls to control ingress/egress of those small number of protocols you actually need to/from (a) the net (b) your management LAN. WHen it comes to 'real' firewalls that run on ...

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