Proxies and ports
Tags :Technical
It seems the last
posting got a few ideas about the
best Domino virus package. Scanning through those and emails/IM's,
Trend
Micro seems to stand out. As
I said in a response comment from me, we run Trend Micro for a few customers
as well as our mail system and have had good luck with performance and
stability.
Now I was reading Ed's
blog on the closing on port 135,
which of course, is the Exchange to Outlook connection port. What
a bummer. But to take that a step further, the port blocking is for
a virus. What if someone wrote a virus that used the Notes port?
(no I am not going to debate if that could happen, just go with me
here on the theory side) What would happen to all those remote workers
that connect directly to Notes server? The effect could be just as
disastrous.
Imagine all the sites not on Domino 5 or
6. Domino 5 for the NRPC over 80 that Ed mentions, but also 6 to
push out policy changes for connection records and other changes required.
Maybe I am going overboard with the idea, but I see this happening
at some point.
Anyone ever use this to configure Notes
RPC over a proxy and port? What if the user is at home? What
proxy do they use? A local one or something that the enterprise supports?
Who manages the proxy for good communications and other attempts?
What makes the proxy any better than direct requests?
Oh the mind is working now...
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On Monday, August 25th, 2003 by Chris Miller
