Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 22:46:38 +0200 From: sthaug@nethelp.no To: jgross@stimpy.net Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 'nother IPFW question Message-ID: <71473.990909998@verdi.nethelp.no> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 25 May 2001 14:49:37 -0700" References: <20010525144937.A60462@felix.stimpy.net>
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> Augh! Why wouldn't you just have the firewall refuse the connection? It's a > bad idea to pass anything through your firewall that you don't want on your > internal network. If you can get your firewall to send a TCP RST, it make sense. If your firewall simply drops the packet, you have just introduced quite a bit of delay in many of your email transactions (while the mail server at the other end waits for the IDENT request to timeout). Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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