> I need quick advice on this problem (quick means by 12:00pm EST Fri
> 15th.).
>
> My employer has finally decided to impliment security measures. They
> are installing some big firewall system, there by rendering my humble
> Debian and Sun boxes silent. They are masq. IPs and allowing basicly
> only http traffic. What I know is that the box has three interfaces,
> external (main IP router connected), Outside (DNS, WWW, mail? servers
> connected), and Trusted (the rest of the College WAN including my Deb.
> boxes, and Sun boxes). I've gotten used to having unrestricted access,
> and don't quite know what to do about this. Losing the server this mail
> is sent from will be a great loss. How do I cope with the big brother
> attitude? (it hasn't been my servers that have been attacked). The only
> connection points I'll have are on the trusted side of the wall. In
> fact the wall will be on the other end of a WAN connection at our main
> campus.
> Basicly advice on dealing with the new network, and possibly cases or
> arguments to use with admin. One concern is how are my students going
> to telnet in for "Unix" practice and assignments? They are not going to
> allow telnet access through the firewall.
How about going through a separate phone line and a cheap,
commercial ISP? If you get a registered domain name, you would
also need to get a static line, which is sometimes expensive,
sometimes not...or use some dynamic IP and nameserver tricks that
are still in development.
Art
>
> Thanks
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