[lug] IP Tables

Nate Duehr nate at natetech.com
Sat Sep 22 17:40:12 MDT 2007


karl horlen wrote:

> My thought is that hackers are not likely
> to keep retrying (but maybe they would) and just
> move on.  If they did get a reject though, they
> might just keep trying.  Probably another port.

It speeds up their ability to do the queries also, if your machine is 
polite enough to answer "Nope!" on every single port with a REJECT. 
Otherwise, they have to wait for whatever timeout value they deem 
appropriate.

Nate



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