[120845] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: D/DoS mitigation hardware/software needed.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dobbins, Roland)
Tue Jan 5 05:18:12 2010
From: "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins@arbor.net>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 10:13:32 +0000
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On Jan 5, 2010, at 5:04 PM, Darren Bolding wrote:
> To reiterate- my entire point is that stateful firewalls are at least som=
etimes useful in front of large websites.=20
I understand completely; I simply disagree, stating my reasons for doing so=
in detail inline. It's my contention that under no circumstances are stat=
eful firewalls *ever* useful in front of *any* Web server, at *any* time, i=
n *any* deployment scenario, either public or private. =20
;>
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