Firewall Wizards: RE: RPCs over HTTPS through the firewall

[Gwendolynn ferch Elydyr <gwen () reptiles org>]

On Fri, 25 Apr 2003, Ben Nagy wrote:
> Flippant, I know, but - sadly - it does reflect reality. It's ironic,
> really, that RPC has been one of the big unix "hack me" services whereas it
> is not one of the worst MS offenders. The  Web service, however, has
> historically been the exact opposite. Before anyone gets all "platform
> agnostic" on me, the original question regarded Outlook traffic to an
> Exchange server, so excuse me for being windows centric here.
It may not have been one of the worst MS offenders, but removing or
disablying RPC on a MS box (Win2k for certain, I didn't test beyond
that, due to a limited test set) will cause it to fail in particularly
unhappy ways which are difficult to recover.

cheers!
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