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At 06:51 PM 9/17/96 -0400, Robert E. Seastrom wrote: >This discussion of securing dialup servers is pointless. I guarantee >you that the 2000 packet/second SYN attacks we've been seeing are >coming from a compromised host on a high speed connection and not from >someone's 28.8k dialup connection. The hackers just take over a >machine, use it to launch their attacks, and disappear into the jungle >if we manage to find the particular machine they're using tonight. > >Harden your servers, filter on all non-transit ports on your routers, >but let's let the how-to-do-filtering-on-terminal-servers discussion >die, OK? > > ---Rob Rob, 'Securing dialup servers' discussion is certainly not pointless; there are certainly considerations that need to be taken in any remote access environment -- that's a fact. Please don't be so quick to dismiss anyone's ideas on this topic; we're going to need full-force input from everyone in the operational world. - paul - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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