Firewall Wizards: Re: Putting MS servers behind firewalls

["Dan Harp" <danh () brenius net>]

I would recommend using IPSec if you want to lock down communication between 
servers and workstations.
Have a look at this:

http://hfnetchk.shavlik.com/support/ipsec_scan.pdf

- Dan

On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 09:17:31 -0400
 "Mark Gumennik" <mgumennik () mitre org> wrote:
> Dilan,
> Consider re-thinking your architecture.
> Opening MS ports on a fw is practically the same as not having a fw
> If you're paranoid about users pinging your servers and such put a router
> ACL with restriction of certain ports
> Keep in mind that this router (or a fw in your case) becomes a backbone
> (bottleneck) of your LAN
> Best of all just put Exchange bridgehead behind a fw (DMZ), open port 25 to
> it and put all AD servers on a regular LAN
> Mark G 
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Walgampaya
> Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 2:24 AM
> To: firewall-wizards () honor icsalabs com
> Subject: [fw-wiz] Putting MS servers behind firewalls
>
> Hi Wizards,
>
>         I ran in to a problem putting Microsoft Servers behind a firewall.
> The 
> users has to go through the FW to access the servers. The servers I 
> wanted to put are on an AD domain. There were AD server, File server and 
> an Exchange server. These servers need a large no. of services opened 
> for proper operation. The worse is that exchange server work in a 
> dynamic port setup where the server opens a random port for each 
> different client. MS site has some registry edits that is supposed to 
> correct this dynamic port setup issue. But when I tried these they did 
> not work as per the document describes.
>         Has anybody done this kind of a setup (with other than an ISA
> server). 
> I am interested in doing this with Netscreen/Pix and Linux IPTables. Any 
> help is appreciated.
>
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Dilan
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