On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, ktb wrote: > From: http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue55/stoddard.html > > Before you save and close the /etc/rc.d/rc.local file, we want to keep > the system from responding to ICMP requests, such as ping > and traceroute, so we add the following lines right after the #!/bin/sh > line: > > echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_all > echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_syncookies
Ok cool. So, is it a security improvement to block these then?
Mike
