Re: Port 25

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El lun, 07 de 02 de 2005 a las 19:30, R. DuFresne escribiÃ:
> I've never heard it is bad, but, te question is how nice one wishes to be
> to those trying to transgess your security profile.  I tend to use alot of
> drops, especially for ports like ftp, telnet, some of the printer and
> shell exec ports, any ports trojans are fond of.  The drop make the other
> end continue trying till the command/connect attepmt is either aborted or
> timesout, and with autoomated attacks, that can slow down the how little
> nasty prog.  Kinder to me and my other servers, as well as others on the
> net when I can slow these things down some.  Reject with rst, those are
> for the ports that you wish to treat the otherend nicely from.

I don't have the documentation handy, but it said making just a
DROP could lead you to being DOS attacked. Have anybody heard
something about this?


> Thanks,
> 
> Ron DuFresne

Regards.

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