Re: I don't need no stinking firewall!

["Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins () arbor net>]

On Jan 6, 2010, at 4:07 AM, Mark Foster wrote:

> I'm interested by this assertion; surely Stateful Inspection is meant to 
> facilitate the blocking of out-of-sequence packets, ones which aren't part 
> of valid + recognised existing sessions - whilst of course allowing valid 
> SYN session-starters, etc?
>
> So thus, there may still be some value in catching 'injected' packets 
> which don't actually belong in a session... ?

Nope - the hosts handle this better on their own.

> Some might argue that DoS is preferred to the other degrees of risk that 
> many webservers hold... (trying not to point the finger in any one 
> specific direction.)

Except that the firewalls don't mitigate any of the other degrees of risk, either.

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