> -----Original Message-----
> From: Johan De Meersman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 8:05 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: NT/2000 vs Unix based Web Servers
>
>
> how about you take whatever webserver you fancy, and throw a *nix
> firewall in front of it ? :)
>
A good idea in principle, but it won't stop buffer overflows targeted at
port 80- after all, the firewall would have to let such traffic through or
the web server would be unavailable. Sophisticated firewalls exist for lots
of cash that can block some attacks, but most off-the-shelf unixes with
IPFILTER compiled into the kernel aren't going to handle that.
Corey Snow
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