On Friday 04 November 2005 15:37, Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote: >Hi, > >Am Freitag, den 04.11.2005, 09:30 -0500 schrieb Gene Heskett: >> Rejecting the attackers packets just confirms >> that you are indeed there. I'd much druther just be a black hole, a >> bottomless bit bucket per sei. > >Please compare: > >This host does not exist: ># ping 192.168.0.123 > >PING 192.168.0.123 (192.168.0.123) 56(84) bytes of data. >From 192.168.0.69 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable >From 192.168.0.69 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable >From 192.168.0.69 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable >From 192.168.0.69 icmp_seq=4 Destination Host Unreachable >From 192.168.0.69 icmp_seq=5 Destination Host Unreachable >From 192.168.0.69 icmp_seq=6 Destination Host Unreachable > >--- 192.168.0.123 ping statistics --- >7 packets transmitted, 0 received, +6 errors, 100% packet loss, time >6096ms, pipe 3 > > > >And this one drops packages: > ># ping www.mopo.de >PING www.mopo.de (62.201.164.170) 56(84) bytes of data. > >--- www.mopo.de ping statistics --- >37 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 36017ms > > > > >See the difference? > >So, the best way is to tell the other machine: >"I am there, but you will not get in. Go away." > > >Most attackers will anyway hammer your machine and not care about the >difference. > >Bye, Ratti
Well, that could happen I guess, but here, theres no log record of it occuring. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.35% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Free OpenDocument reader/writer/converter download: http://www.openoffice.org Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
