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Firewalls Make DDoS Attacks Worse

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the it-burns-me dept.

jfruhlinger writes "Firewalls are an important part of any network setup — but if you put them in front of your Web servers, they become a single point of failure in the event of a DDoS attack. "Folks do it because they have been programmed to do it," says one security expert, but he urges you to avoid this setup at all costs."

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  1. Re:Long on Rhetoric by Suki+I · · Score: 3, Funny

    Short on specifics.

    So I did not miss anything by not RTFA?

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  2. Hacker says by bhcompy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hacker says that firewalls are bad, so don't use them.

  3. Sold! by Beelzebud · · Score: 4, Funny

    Firewalls are a waste of time. I just disabled mine and am ready for some smoo

    1. Re:Sold! by froggymana · · Score: 1, Funny

      Why both with firewalls when you can just use NAT? Its more secure anyway..

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