RE: Port 113 requests?

[Jose Nazario <jose () biocserver BIOC cwru edu>]

On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Chris Keladis wrote:

> The only bad thing about 'rejecting' i can think of, is TCP/IP stack
> fingerprinting of the returned RST packet.

as already said, "so what?" you're already connecting to them (to send the
mail), they know you exist and, due to the joys of passive OS
fingerprinting, they know what OS you're running typically.

nothing gained.

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