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Date:      Tue, 21 Jan 2003 10:07:54 -0800
From:      Michael Sierchio <kudzu@tenebras.com>
To:        Andy Farkas <andyf@speednet.com.au>
Cc:        Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>, Tillman <tillman@seekingfire.com>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Limiting icmp unreach response from 231 to 200 packets per  second
Message-ID:  <3E2D8C7A.1040300@tenebras.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030122022350.A54298-100000@hewey.af.speednet.com.au>
References:  <20030122022350.A54298-100000@hewey.af.speednet.com.au>

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Andy Farkas wrote:

>
> He is talking about icmp packets - nothing to do with named.


It might very well.  If 'named' dies, and net.inet.udp.blackhole=0,
then the kernel will be generating ICMP error responses for UDP
packets sent to port 53.


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