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Protecting Your Website with Firewalls

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I got this book today, it covers some interesting things but not what I am looking for. over a third of the book covers the cd, which is fine, but not what I bought the book for. So hopefully someone will read this and have an idea of another source. What I am looking for is simply a book/white paper/article that explains the format and ports needed to open up a firewall. As a firewall in its basic state shuts down all traffic and then you open it up via "rules" that tells the program

what ports etc to open to allow traffic for that device whether a web browser, irc, ftp, etc. The problem is I have not found anything that explains how to write the rules, nor what the normal ports are. I have been told there is no such creature, if this is true, then in my humble opinion, someone should write a book on it. IF you have any serious suggestions please e-mail me at iamgood@swbell.net or if you have done a firewall and have known my frustration, please e-mail me with examples and ports. there is also suppose to be a way to use ports you design for different things.

Thank you in advance

Bruce

PS I bought a retail firewall product for a couple reasons, first is I have a dsl line and second is to learn from.

Goncalves puts an interesting and relevant spin on the world of firewalls and security. This is a must-buy for systems administrators as it brilliantly goes into the mind of the hacker. Others will also enjoy this book as it is easy to read and tries to minimize proprietary nomenclature associated with technical texts. You will find many chapters devoted to real-world solutions to emerging problems in Internet security.

A must for protecting your network. Easy read and very interesting! Excellent tips!