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Re: Company Firewall's IP Address
From: "Igor' Spivak" <urbanachiever () attbi com>
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 17:07:37 -0800
I was doing security research on the internet at work yesterday.... It then showed a screen with my IP address which was the the external IP interface of one of our companies firewalls.
if this firewall is used to route from your lan<-->internet then it is logical that its adress could be dispolayed in that popup
It just bothers me that someone would be able to determine the IP address
of
our firewall that easily. It seems to me that our firewall should operate
in a
more stealth mode. Our firewall administrator said it is not technically possible to do this. What is your take?.I am not a checkpoint firewall
guru.so
I do not know. All I know is that if I was a hacker, I would love to
hammer
away on an ip address that represented a firewall.
you probably need to do more research on how Ethernet and tcp/ip work before doing any more security research, that will really help in your understanding how things work. good basic read: http://www.yale.edu/pclt/COMM/TCPIP.HTM hope this helps, ids
Current thread:
- Company Firewall's IP Address tony tony (Nov 13)
- RE: Company Firewall's IP Address Michael S Hines (Nov 13)
- Re: Company Firewall's IP Address Edward N Schofield (Nov 13)
- RE: Company Firewall's IP Address Vince Hillier (Nov 15)
- RE: Company Firewall's IP Address Vince Hillier (Nov 14)
- Re: Company Firewall's IP Address Eric Balsa (Nov 14)
- Re: Company Firewall's IP Address Mike Dresser (Nov 14)
- RE: Company Firewall's IP Address Bill Lavalette (Nov 14)
- Re: Company Firewall's IP Address David J. Bianco (Nov 14)
- Re: Company Firewall's IP Address Bill Hamel (Nov 16)
- Re: Company Firewall's IP Address Igor' Spivak (Nov 14)
- Re: Company Firewall's IP Address John Jasen (Nov 15)
- RE: Company Firewall's IP Address Rick Darsey (Nov 15)
- Re: Company Firewall's IP Address Steve Cooper (Nov 15)
- Re: Company Firewall's IP Address Bradley D. Moore (Nov 17)
- Re: Company Firewall's IP Address Chip McClure (Nov 15)
- RE: Company Firewall's IP Address John Tolmachoff (Nov 16)
- RE: Company Firewall's IP Address Daniel R. Miessler (Nov 16)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: Company Firewall's IP Address Leonard.Ong (Nov 13)
- Re: Company Firewall's IP Address Meritt James (Nov 13)
- RE: Company Firewall's IP Address Bruce Fowler (Nov 15)
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