Re: blocking ports
On Fri, 11 Jan 2002 00:14, martin f krafft wrote:
> however, DENYing has the advantage of *severly* slowing any portscan,
> and because obscurity is not a security measure[1] and REJECT not being
> any safer then DENY, you are really not gaining anything...
Another point is that you may not want them to spend a lot of time scanning
you. If their scan involves retransmits and you are paying by the byte then
(in theory at least) being scanned costs you a few cents more.
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