On Fri, 11 Jan 2002 00:14, martin f krafft wrote: > however, DENYing has the advantage of *severly* slowing any portscan, > and because obscurity is not a security measure[1] and REJECT not being > any safer then DENY, you are really not gaining anything...
Another point is that you may not want them to spend a lot of time scanning you. If their scan involves retransmits and you are paying by the byte then (in theory at least) being scanned costs you a few cents more. -- http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/projects.html Projects I am working on http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
