Firewall & VPN

Firewall & VPN

Terms relating to firewalls, which help keep a network safe by not accepting potentially harmful datapackets. Also relates to VPNs, or virtual private networks, that virtually provide a different IP address which makes it seem that the user is using a computer from another location.

Industry: Network hardware

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Firewall & VPN

vulture

Network hardware; Firewall & VPN

The firewall function responsible for terminating unauthorized software services and logons.

webnot

Network hardware; Firewall & VPN

WebNot is a subscription service purchased from Symantec. It provides Web site content ratings that allow you to create content-based Web access rules.

XNTPd

Network hardware; Firewall & VPN

This acronym means "XNTP daemon", and refers to the firewall's standard proxy for NTP, which is installed as part of the Raptor firewall software.

zone transfer

Network hardware; Firewall & VPN

Refers to the process whereby a secondary DNS server requests and receives a download of all the information for which it is authoritative from the primary DNS server for the zone.

address hiding

Network hardware; Firewall & VPN

Refers to the firewall's practice of concealing the IP addresses of hosts behind the firewall. For outbound traffic, the firewall, by default, substitutes its public IP address for the client's ...

AH

Network hardware; Firewall & VPN

This acronym means "Authentication Header", and refers to a protocol, within the IPSEC suite of protocols, for the authentication of IP data. The AH protocol is described in RFC 1826.