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RE: I don't need no stinking firewall!
From: "George Bonser" <gbonser () seven com>
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 21:56:14 -0800
And I don't believe anyone is necessarily advocating exposingindividualservers directly to the internet either.Actually, some of us are.
That can be difficult to do when you have maybe 300 or 400 servers that handle one service. Let's say you have a site called www.foobar.com and you have several hundred servers on the front end that handle that domain. You aren't going to put several hundred A records in DNS; at least I hope you aren't. One would probably have a load balancer of some sort in front of those machines. That is the device that would be fielding any DoS.
There are other devices that can handle isolation of the servers and protect them against suchthingsas syn floods.What is the point of that when the servers can do it themselves?
I have a feeling you are talking about relatively small amounts of traffic.
Current thread:
- Re: I don't need no stinking firewall!, (continued)
- Re: I don't need no stinking firewall! Joel Jaeggli (Jan 08)
- Re: I don't need no stinking firewall! harbor235 (Jan 09)
- Re: I don't need no stinking firewall! Dobbins, Roland (Jan 09)
- Re: I don't need no stinking firewall! harbor235 (Jan 09)
- Re: I don't need no stinking firewall! Dobbins, Roland (Jan 09)
- Re: I don't need no stinking firewall! Dobbins, Roland (Jan 09)
- Re: I don't need no stinking firewall! Michael K. Smith (Jan 10)
- RE: I don't need no stinking firewall! George Bonser (Jan 10)
- Re: I don't need no stinking firewall! Randy Bush (Jan 10)
- Re: I don't need no stinking firewall! Brian Keefer (Jan 10)
- RE: I don't need no stinking firewall! George Bonser (Jan 10)
- Re: I don't need no stinking firewall! Dobbins, Roland (Jan 10)
- RE: I don't need no stinking firewall! George Bonser (Jan 10)
- Re: I don't need no stinking firewall! Warren Kumari (Jan 13)
- Re: I don't need no stinking firewall! Dobbins, Roland (Jan 13)
- Re: I don't need no stinking firewall! Bill Stewart (Jan 14)
- Re: I don't need no stinking firewall! Joe Maimon (Jan 14)
- Re: I don't need no stinking firewall! Valdis . Kletnieks (Jan 08)
- Re: I don't need no stinking firewall! Joe Greco (Jan 08)
- Re: I don't need no stinking firewall! James Hess (Jan 10)
- Re: I don't need no stinking firewall! Dobbins, Roland (Jan 10)