North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Summary with further Question: Domain Name System protection
> > this should be pushed to > > the router. don't waste CPU cycles > > on the Nameserver. > > Hosts tend to be a faster writeoff cycle than routers in companies I've > worked at, therefore getting the benefit of moores law about 25% faster > than the routers. Turn on firewalling in the host. If you have a choice between access lists on a software forwarding based router and firewall on a host, this may be a good choice. If your routers have hardware forwarding, I'd go for the router every time... Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, [email protected]
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