From owner-freebsd-security Fri Jun 15 11:53:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from silby.com (cb34181-a.mdsn1.wi.home.com [24.14.173.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51E8937B401 for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 11:53:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from silby@silby.com) Received: (qmail 25444 invoked by uid 1000); 15 Jun 2001 18:53:25 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 15 Jun 2001 18:53:25 -0000 Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 13:53:25 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Silbersack To: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" Cc: Gerhard Sittig , "'freebsd-security@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: apache security question In-Reply-To: <20010615125253.B75938@mail.webmonster.de> Message-ID: <20010615134459.R25403-100000@achilles.silby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Karsten W. Rohrbach wrote: > ratelimiting turned out to be too relaxed for several servers i got in > the field. was this changed from 4.2 to 4.3? It changed a bit, contact me via private e-mail with info on what it wasn't able to handle and we'll see if we can enhance it. > i did not want to say that blackhole(4) is a replacement for ipf(4). > since the b0rkedness of the rule parser, ipfw(4) is not an option > anymore for me. try mathing multiple destination ports in one rule :-/ > > > > > So... don't worry about it. (Or filter upstream if you are being attacked > > and are forced to worry about it.) > > that's exactly what i wrote in the original mail, would it not have been > removed. Oops, guess I got too cut happy. Sorry. > > * Some attack tools have recognizeable signatures, you could block those > > with ipfw. > > oh, yes, and snort or similar things on a gateway in front of it to see > new ones ;-) I should really check out that program one of these days. I must be one of the few to not yet use it. :) Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message