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Re: DNS - connection limit (without any extra hardware)

  • From: Gadi Evron
  • Date: Sun Dec 10 14:55:20 2006

On Sun, 10 Dec 2006, Hank Nussbacher wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 10 Dec 2006, Petri Helenius wrote:
> 
> >> Virtual patching.
> >
> > How do I virtual patch the machine in ireland which attacked my mail server 
> > just a few minutes ago?
> 
> You don't patch the machine in Ireland, but once your "virtual patching 
> box" identifies a hostile system and identifies what it is infected with, 
> it can then do the virtual patching on your end so that all subsequent 
> pkts entering from that machine in Ireland are cleaned and no longer 
> hostile.

I don't follow. Three monkies? Hitchhiker's Guide towel?

	Gadi.

> -Hank
>