[4985] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DoS, ICMP, proxies, SYNDefender
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leonid Egoshin)
Thu Oct 3 17:56:05 1996
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 14:49:07 -0700 (PDT)
From: Leonid Egoshin <egoshin@genesyslab.com>
To: bass@linux.silkroad.com, mdz@netrail.net
Cc: iepg@iepg.org, nanog@merit.edu
>From: Tim Bass <bass@linux.silkroad.com>
>
>I feel like a cheerleader 'Give me an U N R E A C H A B L E'
>wha-at-ya-got .........
Tim, unfortunately ICMP UNREACHABLE can be sent some intermediate
router during routing flip process. For this reason some customer
prefer cut off this sort of ICMP - it would break running TCP connection.
- Leonid Yegoshin, LY22
