Re: FreeBSD's RST validation

[db () DB NET (Diane Bruce)]

Tristan Horn says:
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  I hate people who mime their email for the plain text part.
In any case.

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> RFC 793, pages 36-39 (chapter 3.5) describes closing connections with
> TCP.  Page 37 is of particular interest:
...
> IRC in particular will probably be affected, due to the ease of getting
> addresses and such.  /stats L even used to give you the port numbers
> for users, servers and listening sockets, but I believe this was fixed
> in /hybrid a while back, and then +CS.  /stats c should just be disabled
> for non-opers since it lets people find the port # for autoconnects.

  I have been planning it. Well, allowing stats c, but not giving
the actual IP's, I'll disable the port # as well.
Port 6666 is quite commonly used for autoconnect, as well as 31337...
Not really very much that can be done from userland really...

...
> TS4 rocks!

  I do not like TS4. But, this is hardly the place to discuss it.

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