OWA 2003 in DMZ?

From: "John" <John@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 13:03:05 -0700

We have setup our new Exchange 2003 FE/OWA in a DMZ, we are having
intermitent problems with the server, it will stay up for a while (12 hours)
then stop accepting requests. Our security person configured the ports on the
firewall and we configured the DCs to connect to the OWA using one port for
rcps to limit the number of prots it uses.
I've been reading articles out there stating that putting a Front End server
in a DMZ in not a good idea, both for security and configuration reasons.
Is that true, should we just put it behind our firewall?
Thanks
.

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