[121120] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: I don't need no stinking firewall!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Keefer)
Sun Jan 10 21:45:40 2010
From: Brian Keefer <chort@smtps.net>
In-Reply-To: <5A6D953473350C4B9995546AFE9939EE081F71E4@RWC-EX1.corp.seven.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 18:44:37 -0800
To: George Bonser <gbonser@seven.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jan 10, 2010, at 5:40 PM, George Bonser wrote:
> And I don't believe anyone is necessarily advocating exposing individual
> servers directly to the internet either.
Actually, some of us are.
> There are other devices that
> can handle isolation of the servers and protect them against such things
> as syn floods.
What is the point of that when the servers can do it themselves?
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bk
