On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 09:39:44AM +1000, Noel Butler wrote:
> > real-time blacklist lookup (-> ModSecurity's @rbl operator).
> 
> Try using that on busy servers (webhosts/ISP's)... might be fine for a
> SOHO, but in a larger commercial world, forget it, the impact is  far
> far worse than the other suggestions.

Certainly. But if we run 100% https anyways, enable a local dns cache
or even cache the results within apache, would it still be as
dangerous? So far my answer has been yes. But I would be interested
to hear a response from somebody who was crazy enough to enable it.

regs,

Christian

-- 
Complexity is the worst enemy of security, and the Internet -- 
and the computers and processes connected to it -- is getting
more complex all the time.
-- Bruce Schneier

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