Firewalls Make DDoS Attacks Worse

jfruhlinger writes "Firewalls are an important part of any network setup — but if you put them in front of your Web servers, they become a single point of failure in the event of a DDoS attack. "Folks do it because they have been programmed to do it," says one security expert, but he urges you to avoid this setup at all costs."

Re:Long on Rhetoric

[Suki I]

Short on specifics.

So I did not miss anything by not RTFA?

Hacker says

[bhcompy]

Hacker says that firewalls are bad, so don't use them.

Sold!

[Beelzebud]

Firewalls are a waste of time. I just disabled mine and am ready for some smoo

Re:Sold!

[froggymana]

Why both with firewalls when you can just use NAT? Its more secure anyway..