Digit Firewall?

[anomit]

After doing a traceroute of the digit server, it seems that Digit does not use a software firewall. How is it protecting its server?

Tracing route to 130.94.75.250 over a maximum of 30 hops

  1   261 ms   262 ms   249 ms  61.0.139.6
  2   245 ms   262 ms   249 ms  61.0.139.3
  3   257 ms   262 ms   248 ms  61.0.139.10
  4   282 ms   301 ms   288 ms  61.0.229.86
  5   467 ms   327 ms   327 ms  203.199.11.6.static.vsnl.net.in [203.199.11.6]
  6   294 ms   288 ms   327 ms  vsb-lan.152.static.vsnl.net.in [202.54.1.152]
  7   546 ms   537 ms   551 ms  sj-mum-stm1.Bbone.vsnl.net.in [202.54.2.122]
  8   600 ms   537 ms   551 ms  p1-5-3-1.r06.plalca01.us.bb.verio.net [129.250.1
0.185]
  9   560 ms   590 ms   551 ms  p16-1-1-0.r20.plalca01.us.bb.verio.net [129.250.
3.80]
 10   597 ms   603 ms   590 ms  p16-0-1-3.r21.asbnva01.us.bb.verio.net [129.250.
2.193]
 11   612 ms   590 ms   616 ms  p64-0-0-0.r20.asbnva01.us.bb.verio.net [129.250.
2.34]
 12   585 ms   603 ms   603 ms  mg-1.c00.stngva01.us.da.verio.net [129.250.28.20
2]
 13   599 ms   590 ms   603 ms  161.58.156.173
 14   599 ms   708 ms   642 ms  130.94.75.250

Trace complete.

161.58.156.173 This one??????

Any advanced technology? Or am I wrong?

 

[theraven]

?
software firewall for servers ?
nah
digit is using zdnet servers
so im sure zdnet is using a hardware firewall to protect its system

servers require a lot of security
hence they need stateful firewalls like cisco pix ( hardware) or checkpoint (software)
so either ways yeah there is a dedicated firewall
they dun use products like zonealarm afaik

[edit]
it seems 161.58.156.173 is the ip address of their gateway !
which could be a router/firewall
if they are using cisco pix then this is most probably the address of the router !