Marc Slemko wrote:
>
> On Tue, 5 Jan 1999, John wrote:
>
> > I think this would be a very useful option to have built into the main
> > distribution (or at least available via option "most"), just like the
> > other useful limitations we can make for timeouts, etc.
>
> It probably will be at some point in the near future.
>
> Proxies aren't really a big issue as long as your limits are high enough;
> except in special situations, if a single proxy is making enough
> simultaneous connections to hit such a limit then it is being bad and
> should be denied anyway.
>
Such an option would be useful to protect your server from attacks,
sure. But then, what's bad about being a masquerading gateway for an
intranet of, say 1000 clients, where 250 users decide to browse your
page at noon? Would it be better to have them all use a
different gateway?
Niels
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