El mar, 08 de 02 de 2005 a las 16:32, Hudson Delbert J Contr 61 CS/SCBN escribiÃ: > jason, > > afraid i've gotta agree with you on this. i'd take it a step further, > it probably makes the environment more difficult to figure out as the RST > would alert me to the fact that i PROBABLY can DOS this guy whereas if i get > no response, i'm left to me own devices. every step that makes the life of > "UNINVITED GUESTS" harder is worth doing especially if it can be accomplished with > LESS effort. good catch here. > > jose, > when you get a chance could you post a link to the docs you refer to. You just have to go to google and type "DROP vs REJECT", there's a lot of controversy about this and lots of documents. The ones I was referring were some I found that way, so I can't tell you which ones were exactly. Regards. -- Jose Maria Lopez Hernandez Director Tecnico de bgSEC jkerouac@xxxxxxxxx bgSEC Seguridad y Consultoria de Sistemas Informaticos http://www.bgsec.com ESPAÃA The only people for me are the mad ones -- the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow Roman candles. -- Jack Kerouac, "On the Road"