On Sat, 2016-02-13 at 08:33 -0600, Robert Nichols wrote: > The lack of response means, "There's a machine here that is trying > not to be seen." If there were really no machine at that address, > the upstream router would have sent back an ICMP "No route to host" > response. Yes, I do DROP most of those incoming probes, but it's > just to avoid the effort to send a packet that would count, albeit > minimally, against my usage cap. I'm not kidding myself that it > makes me more "invisible". Hmm, you'd only be halving it (approx). You'd still have the incoming attempts being part of your bandwidth usage. Years ago someone asked me how they could stop a spammer, and my response was chop their hands off. I think the same applies to other internet miscreants. -- tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.19.8-100.fc20.i686 #1 SMP Tue May 12 17:42:35 UTC 2015 i686 All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists. George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
