Re: IPS mode for snort

[waldo kitty <wkitty42 () windstream net>]

On 6/12/2013 11:00, Mike Miller wrote:
> 4. If the Bad Guy think's you're actively blacklisting based on IP, they can
> craft packets to make you go deaf. (Like making sure your Snort box is blocking
> access to the outside DNS server...because it received a UDP packet that was
> bad, that it thinks came from the DNS server.)

FWIW: this is where you would white list those external critical systems like 
trusted upstream DNS servers ;)

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