From: Daniel <damage@rooties.de>
To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: DROP or REJECT?
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 19:44:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200511201944.33472.damage@rooties.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000001c5ee00$f8343970$2801a8c0@MBRC40>
hm.... I think sending "host unreachable" from the host which should not be
reachable is not what you want. Alos sending "host unreachable" will increase
your traffic (not much, but it did :) ).
But I think most "attack" tools will ignore trys to make yourself invisible.
greez
Daniel
Am Sonntag, 20. November 2005 19:33 schrieb Michael D. Berger:
> For blocking various attacks on ports 22 and 80,
> I have been using:
> -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-host-unreachable
> To minimize future attempts, is this best, or is
> there a better idea, such as DROP?
> Thanks for your advice,
> Mike.
> --
> Michael D. Berger
> m.d.berger@ieee.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-20 18:44 UTC|newest]
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2005-11-20 18:33 DROP or REJECT? Michael D. Berger
2005-11-20 18:44 ` Daniel [this message]
2005-11-20 18:57 ` /dev/rob0
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