Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 08:33:55 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> Cc: Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk>, "Carlos C. Tapang" <ctapang@easystreet.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Plugging a FreeBSD server to the net: need advice Message-ID: <199810301633.IAA00359@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 30 Oct 1998 11:30:51 %2B0100." <19981030113051.46830@follo.net>
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> On Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 10:47:04PM +0000, Nik Clayton wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 10:57:52AM -0800, Carlos C. Tapang wrote: > > > Is FreeBSD.ORG behind a firewall? > > > > Yes. > > As far as I know, this is incorrect. I'm not able see it with > traceroute, at least, and there isn't anything that look like one... It's actually behind several filters; one at CRL and another one here. Neither of them are "fish-ass-tight"; our primary concern is actually DoS attacks eating the T1. It'll close up more as we tighten the security on the cluster, but because we need to allow external logins it'll never be as tight as would be desired. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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