From owner-cvs-all Thu Feb 17 11:23:33 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51A2937B698; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 11:23:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (dcs@p35-dn02kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [211.0.245.100]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) with ESMTP id EAA02672; Fri, 18 Feb 2000 04:23:21 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <38AC4A73.DB68EB72@newsguy.com> Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 04:22:27 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc hosts.allow References: <638.950814346@zippy.cdrom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: > > It's not a DoS attack unless you send email. :) I sent the mail too fast. Here is what I meant instead... Isn't silently dropping packets a much more efficient way of dealing with attacks such as port scans, which are the ones most likely to trigger hosts.allow rules? -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "If you consider our help impolite, you should see the manager." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message