On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 10:08:52PM +0100, Jesper Skriver wrote:
> >    (2) These same messages are not handled for connections not in
> >        SYN-SENT: they ought to be
> 
> Well, yes, but the real problem is when sessions are setup, the reason I
> only configured it to affect sessions in SYN-SENT state, was to minimize
> the risk for a DoS.

This should not be treated any differently than a host/net unreachable
message.  If filters are (re)loaded while a connection is in progress,
then the ICMP message should serve to tear down the connection.

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