Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 11:44:52 -0600 (CST) From: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> To: Chris Byrnes <chris@jeah.net> Cc: <scanner@jurai.net>, Marc Rogers <marcr@shady.org>, <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: DoS attack - advice needed Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0103221143100.21839-100000@achilles.silby.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0103221121250.8421-100000@awww.jeah.net>
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On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Chris Byrnes wrote: > Why? If you have idiots running ping -f yourserver.com from 150 ISPs > around the world, you're going to want to filter ICMP. That's what I did > awhile back. > > And I haven't found a valid reason to re-enable it. The ratelimiting in 4.3 handles that now, so it's not necessary to block it anymore. (Though if you're being pung constantly, I can understand the desire to block it.) 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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