Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 13:07:08 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: David Pick <D.M.Pick@qmw.ac.uk>, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc inetd.conf Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010031305480.33314-100000@achilles.silby.com> In-Reply-To: <200010031722.NAA41823@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Garrett Wollman wrote: > <<On Tue, 03 Oct 2000 18:16:12 +0100, David Pick <D.M.Pick@qmw.ac.uk> said: > > > gets no response (after a time-out) it would be entitled to retry a > > few times in case of packet loss. *But* if it gets a RST, which is a > > If net.inet.tcp.blackhole is set, an RST will not be emitted. > > -GAWollman If you're paranoid enough to block RST, you probably wouldn't leave auth on anyway. In either case, blocked RST wasn't the questioned case. I'm still curious what sendmail does on refused connections. Does anyone know for sure? Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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