Re: Kerio echo

From: Dirk Claessens (will.bounce_at_invalid)
Date: 11/07/03 

Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 13:26:38 GMT

on 07 nov 2003, "EnigmaX" wrote in comp.security.firewalls :

> No you don't, and RFC doesn't matter when you run a stealth firewall.
> RFC doesn't mean jack anymore when it comes to stealth configurations.
>

Never forget that without the RFC's, we would be sending letters to each
other, instead of communicating here. What's the big security problem with
allowing a system to respond to a ping? They know your system is up, so
what, as long as you run a good firewall?

All a firewall can do, is discard the pings, but it can't **stop** them
from pinging you, or sending you a "ping of death"; someway or another, a
firewall will have to "consume" whatever is being send to it. 

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Dirk.
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