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Re: Schneier: ISPs should bear security burden

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Thu Apr 28 10:45:06 2005

To: Adi Linden <adil@adis.on.ca>
Cc: Bill Stewart <nonobvious@gmail.com>,
	Steve Sobol <sjsobol@justthe.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 28 Apr 2005 09:01:26 CDT."
             <Pine.CYG.4.58.0504280854220.3260@citabria> 
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 10:44:34 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


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On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 09:01:26 CDT, Adi Linden said:

> When my PC grabs an IP address, I'd expect to see zero traffic from the
> world unless I make a request for content. Only then should I see traffic
> and only the content I requested.

Remember - the RST packet is there so you can tell the other end that they're
trying to talk to a connection that isn't there - often due to the connection
having been with the *previous* machine using that IP address....

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