On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 12:44:27PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > *ANYTHING* falls over pretty easily when hit with DDOS. There is no > real defense against it at this time. Yeah, but we're talking two dialup boxes not even pinging as fast as they can. > > and it's not hard to get the equivilent of root on them. > > Any details? (Otherwise I will ignore this as FUD.) I can't recall the details, I don't bother remembering shit I don't use. 8:o) > What specifically do you find vulnerable about a NAT based firewall? It's trivial to source-route past NAT. Depending on NAT alone is expecting security through obscurity. -- .''`. Baloo <baloo@ursine.dyndns.org> : :' : proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than to fix a system
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