Ryan Tandy wrote:

> you're running a firewall of some kind (and you'd be crazy not to for 
> any publically accessible box),

Actually, I'd disagree. If only the necessary publicly accessible services
are running on a box, what good should a "firewal" (I suppose you mean
packet filter, like iptables) do? The only useful measure I can think about,
is to do rate limiting. But what else?

Alexander Skwar
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