fplath
Aug 22 2004, 10:32 AM
Anyone have experience using the Plesk Firewall? Any concern with locking myself out of the server?
kharrazi
Aug 28 2004, 11:12 PM
I'm using Plesk 7.0 on Windows 2003:
Well I just turned it on and this is what happened:
1. It creates an Incoming Connection firewall option for your network card. If you right click on your network card and see the properties you'll find it.
2. As it is indicated in its help: "The default policy is set to drop all packets. Fragment checking is turned on. Outgoing TCP connections from the box are enabled on all ports, incoming are limited to the useful internet services only: FTP, SMTP/SMTPS, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, POP3, IMAP, RDP. Also incoming DNS UDP packets and ICMP packets of type 0, 3, and 8 (echo reply, destination unreachable, echo request) are enabled."
3. You can't access to intenet connection within your Remote Desktop session which means it may has blocked outgoing port 80. Therefore for example the following applications wouldn't work: plesk updater, windows updater or even Urchin
I think a commercial firewall would be better. But I don't have any idea yet. Does anybody know a good firewall?
Cheers,
fplath
Aug 29 2004, 12:05 AM
As I mentioned in the other thread, I use RRAS (http://www.bganet.org/rras/rrassetup.htm). Couldn't be easier.