DNS - connection limit (without any extra hardware)

Sun Dec 10 20:50:24 UTC 2006

Hank Nussbacher wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Dec 2006, Petri Helenius wrote:
>
>>> Virtual patching.
>>
>> How do I virtual patch the machine in ireland which attacked my mail 
>> server just a few minutes ago?
>
> You don't patch the machine in Ireland, but once your "virtual 
> patching box" identifies a hostile system and identifies what it is 
> infected with, it can then do the virtual patching on your end so that 
> all subsequent pkts entering from that machine in Ireland are cleaned 
> and no longer hostile.
Does it reset the evil bit too?

Pete