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Re: DoS, ICMP, proxies, SYNDefender

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dima Volodin)
Fri Oct 4 09:01:38 1996

To: bass@linux.silkroad.com (Tim Bass)
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 08:57:29 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: mdz@netrail.net, nanog@merit.edu, iepg@iepg.org
In-Reply-To: <199610032104.RAA00838@linux.silkroad.com> from "Tim Bass" at Oct 3, 96 05:04:54 pm
From: dvv@sprint.net (Dima Volodin)

(Doing my usual reiteration thing) routers _cannot_ generate UNREACH
for every host. Routers don't usually generate UNREACH for dead hosts
on ethernet/FDDI (should they, anyway?). Routers cannot generate
UNREACH for hosts that (for whatever reason) don't respond to spurious
SYN/ACKs.


Dima

Tim Bass writes:
> 
> I feel like a cheerleader 'Give me an U N R E A C H A B L E'
> wha-at-ya-got .........
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Tim
> 
>
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