Re: Port 113 requests?

[Alexander Bochmann <securityfocus-incidents () freinet de>]

...on Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 01:51:33PM -0700, Slighter, Tim wrote:

> you really should try and specify that the rule "drops" instead of reject so
> that the potential intruder is not provided with any information about their
> attempted connection.

...except that Ryan Russell just explained why this is a 
bad idea (at least if you want to send mail from that machine).

Alex.


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