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Re: BoS: Re: RealSecure
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Klaus)
Sat Sep 14 13:43:42 1996
From: Christopher Klaus <cklaus@iss.net>
To: olaf@bigred.inka.de (Olaf Titz)
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 12:56:49 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: best-of-security@suburbia.net, submit-linux-dev-net@yggdrasil.com
In-Reply-To: <19960914101613.26547.qmail@bigred.inka.de> from "Olaf Titz" at Sep 14, 96 10:16:13 am
>
> [CCd to linux.dev.net where further discussion should be redirected.]
>
> > > >RealSecure (tm) is a comprehensive attack recognition and real
> > > >time response tool that ISS is alpha testing and will expire in
> > > >60 days.
> > Unfortunately for all of us, These children who get their kicks by SYN
> > flooding won't expire in 60 days.
>
> Fortunately, the free software community should be able to develop a
> similar thing within this timeline. ;-)
Im aware of atleast 2 people who are going to release a free fix. I believe
their solutions are different for the problem, so it may be worthwhile to
test and see which one fits your needs better.
> (I don't doubt that ISS' product will have a lot of features more so
> that it still remains worth consideration, but free alternative
> solutions to specific problems are always a nice thing...)
Definitely, I agree. I hope the vendors like Sun, HP, MicroSoft, IBM, etc
will come out with solutions for their OSes. SYN flooding has been a known
problem for awhile and the chance to develope a fix has had plenty
of time. We are going to keep our own solution available to everyone
longer than 60 days, but we want to expire the alpha version so as to
make sure people at some point will upgrade to a more stable and enhanced
version. Or if they do not upgrade, they know they will need to get the
fixes from the vendors.
Thanks,
Chris
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