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* Suresh Ramasubramanian: > On 29/07/05, Florian Weimer <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Anyway, you should examine *why* you (or your customers) are attacked, >> and address that. Everything else is likely cost-effective. Of >> course, this might mean you have to do without some revenue if you >> have customers that are DoS magnets for some reason. >> > > Not allowing your users to run eggdrop or other irc bots on the shells > you give them, and generally not hosting irc stuff would definitely > help there. Definitely. You should also help your customer to detect successful break-ins. Compromised machines are often used in very questionable contexts and quickly become targets of DoS attacks as well (not your average owned home computer, of course, it's more about multi-user UNIX machines).
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