Re: Proposed change to icmp_may_rst induced ENETRESET

2001-08-27 Thread Jesper Skriver
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 04:54:31PM -0400, Mike Silbersack wrote: > > On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Jesper Skriver wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 06:23:31PM -0700, Scott Renfro wrote: > > > You have a valid point that icmp_may_rst changes nmap's behavior, even > > > with the proposed patch. If you

Re: Proposed change to icmp_may_rst induced ENETRESET

2001-08-27 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Jesper Skriver wrote: > On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 06:23:31PM -0700, Scott Renfro wrote: > > You have a valid point that icmp_may_rst changes nmap's behavior, even > > with the proposed patch. If you want nmap's historic behavior (admin > > prohib ==> filtered), then turning o

Re: Proposed change to icmp_may_rst induced ENETRESET

2001-08-27 Thread Jesper Skriver
On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 06:23:31PM -0700, Scott Renfro wrote: > On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 04:53:26PM -0400, Barney Wolff wrote: > > > > As another heavy nmap user, I'd vote just the other way. It's useful > > to differentiate between a reset coming back from the destination host > > and an unreacha

Re: Proposed change to icmp_may_rst induced ENETRESET

2001-08-23 Thread Scott Renfro
On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 04:53:26PM -0400, Barney Wolff wrote: > > As another heavy nmap user, I'd vote just the other way. It's useful > to differentiate between a reset coming back from the destination host > and an unreachable from a firewall/router-acl. Ordinary apps probably > don't care all

Re: Proposed change to icmp_may_rst induced ENETRESET

2001-08-23 Thread Barney Wolff
As another heavy nmap user, I'd vote just the other way. It's useful to differentiate between a reset coming back from the destination host and an unreachable from a firewall/router-acl. Ordinary apps probably don't care all that much about why a connection could not be established, and just rep

Proposed change to icmp_may_rst induced ENETRESET

2001-08-22 Thread Scott Renfro
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 10:48:26AM -0600, Jonathan Lemon wrote: > On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 06:36:46PM +0200, Jesper Skriver wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 10:19:22AM -0600, Jonathan Lemon wrote: > > > > > > I forget why I picked ENETRESET; probably because it was the > > > first thing that lea