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Date:      Mon, 4 Feb 2002 20:38:15 +0100
From:      Krzysztof Zaraska <kzaraska@student.uci.agh.edu.pl>
To:        "Bart Matthaei" <bart@dreamflow.nl>
Cc:        martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu, freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Port 113 Traffic
Message-ID:  <20020204203815.09a893b9.kzaraska@student.uci.agh.edu.pl>
In-Reply-To: <20020204202532.P34448@heresy.dreamflow.nl>
References:  <200202041914.g14JEiM74583@dc.cis.okstate.edu> <20020204202532.P34448@heresy.dreamflow.nl>

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On Mon, 4 Feb 2002 20:25:32 +0100
"Bart Matthaei" <bart@dreamflow.nl> wrote:

> You don't wanna block ident. Its trivial. If you block it, ident
> requests to your machine will time out, resulting in a slow
> initialization of connections like irc, to name one.
Not necessarily. Just make your firewall reply to port 113 traffic with
RST instead of silently dropping the packet. For the remote host it will
look like you weren't running ident daemon. 

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