On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 6:15 AM, Jochem van Dieten wrote: > Andrew Scott wrote: >> Ever heard of IP spoofing? Sure you need to complain about it, but the one >> thing they need to do is track the packets. > > IP spoofing is really only a significant problem with UDP. With TCP any > decent ISP will catch spoofs in their egress filters. Even your cheap, > Taiwanese black box NAT router at home will stop spoofing for TCP > because it won't be able to match the NAT state.
Unrelated, but isn't our government pretty much listening to all the chatter across the wires? Pity to think we couldn't take advantage of that infrastructure. </joke> [...] > There is no way CF can guess the right datatypes to bind my function > arguments to when I call a polymorphic function in the database. This, I'm curious about. Aren't there ways to use some type of introspection? Bah. I see your point, even if so, you end up having to understand every type of SQL, if from a different angle. No easy java SQL parser to throw in, I guess. Still, there aren't *that* many DBs out there that would need to be supported... :-)p > I haven't mentioned this before because I do believe that filtering > request URLs is the wrong approach Care to elaborate on this? Even just a couple of rules in an apache conf file has helped quite a bit to eliminate these spam hits on CF, without impacting anthing else, that I'm aware of... are you thinking something closer to the network level? Every piece you add opens holes, and I used to sorta shun rewriting because of that, but, who am I kidding? :-) And it seems like rewriting is pretty common-place, so pretty vetted. But I'd love to hear your take on the URL request filtering, Jochem! :Denny -- Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action. Thomas B. Macaulay ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:311106 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
