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Re: SYN floods
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Quinot)
Mon Aug 26 05:10:43 1996
To: submit-linux-dev-net@ratatosk.yggdrasil.com
From: thomas@cuivre.fdn.fr (Thomas Quinot)
Date: 26 Aug 1996 00:31:10 GMT
Racer X (shagboy@wspice.com) =E9crit :
> Everyone SHOULD have a reverse DNS mapping. Period. Isn't there som=
e RFC
> somewhere that says all connected hosts' IP's should correspond to a =
name?
Precisely, "should" (as per RFC1912, for example). "Should" is not
"must" ; consequently, accepting or denying connections based on the
presence or absence of reverse mapping is a policy issue, and as so
is very unlikely to be implemented in the kernel's TCP stack.
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