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From: Georgi Alexandrov <georgi.alexandrov@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: tarpit before or after adding chain?
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 11:17:50 +0200
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Gary W. Smith wrote:

>This should also work as well.  We tarpit all data which should never
>come through our firewalls.  We also disabled tracking for the same.  We
>don't want the firewall wasting resources on this garbage.  Another
>trick that we do is we also dedicate a high/low IP for catching things
>like SQL, HTTP, VNC, RDC, etc.  This was things walking the network will
>sometimes get hung, if they are not threaded.
>  
>
I don't think that his *one or two per day* cmd.exe automatic scans will 
get "through his firewall",
or will "waste resources".
Maybe filling your firewall with those useless rules will waste more 
resources? ;-)

*Think again* (as seen in the national geographic channel)


regards,
Georgi Alexandrov