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Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 21:46:03 +0100
From: Marc Olzheim <marcolz@stack.nl>
To: Lars Eggert <lars.eggert@netlab.nec.de>
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Subject: Re: TCP RST handling in 6.0
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On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 11:02:25AM -0800, Lars Eggert wrote:
> Thus, I'd like to suggest that the default for =20
> net.inet.tcp.insecure_rst be zero for now. AFAIK, any other TCP mod =20
> came disabled be default in the past, too.

Being on the wrong end of a distributed tcp syn flood attack atm. on the
machine I'm mailing from, is probably enough to convince me of its use.
:-)

I hardly notice anything on the machine, except for having to move the
sshd to ipv6 only...

Marc

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