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Re: OT: An Idea for an IDS



On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 05:57:27PM +0200, Tomasz Papszun wrote:

> On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 at 22:39:15 -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > Not really a good idea.  Consider what happens when someone forges the IP
> > addresses.
> 
> One can predefine trusted or other very important IP addresses which
> cannot be blocked.
> In fact, such an utility exists and is present in Debian Woody:
> fwlogwatch.

Which ones are important?  For example, one could forge packets from
millions of random IP addresses, popular web sites, etc. and easily DoS such
a system.

-- 
 - mdz



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