GlusterFS description sounds very promising: easy configurable, fault tolerant distributed file system. It promises petabytes of storage on a single name space on a commodity hardware.
It implements mirroring and stripe modes which makes it possible to store big files over a set of smaller storage servers.
The question is how easy the system can be extended [...]
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Ban IP address based on port scan detection
Posted: 22nd July 2009 by as in Computer Security, Intrusion Detection, Intrusion Detection ToolsComments Off
Regarding to Solar Designer (1999) it is not a good idea to block access to a IP address based on port scan. Port scan can be easily spoofed by generating 1000 of requests to a target with 999 spoofed source addresses and only one real one. This type of attach makes impossible