Advice sought on machine web-server safe
Mike McCarty
mike.mccarty at sbcglobal.net
Thu Nov 17 20:16:12 UTC 2005
Timothy Murphy wrote:
> STYMA, ROBERT E (ROBERT) wrote:
>
>
>>If your home network connection has a dsl/cable router
>>with NAT attached to it, things can get a lot simpler.
>>You can tell the router to forward port 80 to your
>>machine running apache and that will be the only resource
>>visible from the outside. NAT (Network Address Translation)
>>can be a very effective firewall.
>
>
> Thanks for your response.
> I don't have a router, as I understand that term.
> I have an ADSL modem, attached by Ethernet to my computer.
>
> I assume I am using NAT,
> since I have a number of other computers (Linux and Windows)
> attached to the above machine,
> and they access the outside world through email and the web.
>
>
Even if you don't intend to use NAT, I recommend you get
a router with a firewall in it. I have only one computer
connected to a DSL modem, but I put a router between just
to get the firewall.
Mike
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