Re: Arguing against using public IP space

[Jay Ashworth <jra () baylink com>]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Valdis Kletnieks" <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu>

> And this is totally overlooking the fact that the vast majority of *actual*
> attacks these days are web-based drive-bys and similar things that most
> firewalls are configured to pass through. Think about it - if a NAT'ed
> firewall provides any real protection against real attacks, why are there still
> so many zombied systems out there? I mean, Windows Firewall has been shipping
> with inbound "default deny" since XP SP2 or so. How many years ago was that?
> And what *real* security over and above that host-based firewall are you
> getting from that appliance?
>
> Or as Dr Phil would say "FIrewalls - how is that working out for you?"

Do you have actual honest-to-ghod numbers, Valdis?

And aren't you making here the same assumption for which we chastise people
who run DNS resolvers that wildcard to advertising pages for NXDOMAIN:

That all the world's a workstation?

Cheers,
-- jra
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