From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Feb 25 4:35:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41B8B37B401 for ; Sun, 25 Feb 2001 04:35:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA59867; Sun, 25 Feb 2001 13:35:20 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Brent , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: strange port activity References: <005a01c09d15$adb0e7e0$e32b82d0@cybertours.com> <20010222133900.A7570@mollari.cthul.hu> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 25 Feb 2001 13:35:19 +0100 In-Reply-To: Kris Kennaway's message of "Thu, 22 Feb 2001 13:39:00 -0800" Message-ID: Lines: 15 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kris Kennaway writes: > [...] It's the same problem which causes people > with Windows "personal firewall" software to go to red alert when they > see a remote system returning an ICMP Unreachable packet at them, > because the software is too trigger-happy and tells them they're being > hacked. Because firewall software that tells the clueless user "somebody tried to hack you, but fortunately you're running Acme Personall Firewall so they didn't succeed" sells a whole lot better than firewall software that truthfully says "nobody knows or cares that you exist". DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message