Re: REJECTing ident requests (was: FTP problems)

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Le ven 28/02/2003 à 14:06, Martin Köhling a écrit :
> Better use "--reject-with tcp-reset".

Sure.

> Quite some time ago, I had strange problems with some (broken?) mail
> servers refusing to accept mail when I simply REJECTed ident connects -
> apparently they didn't like the default ICMP error message
> (icmp-port-unreachable, I think)...

Maybe because RFC says that a SYN on a closed port must be replied with
RST, and not ICMP port unreachable...

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