[svlug] Firewalls?

[Raj Shekhar]

Rick Moen wrote:

>>   - someone pointed to this netfilter magic 
>> http://blog.andrew.net.au/2005/02/16#ipt_recent_and_ssh_attacks
> 
> Much more sound and better engineered than denyhosts, and at least he
> built in timeouts on its blocks from the beginning, making it less likely
> you're going to hurt yourself -- in the process of solving the wrong
> problem, which is of course the fundamental drawback of all these things.

I did not get the part about the "wrong problem".  Can you explain what 
you mean by that ?

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