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Re: dropping vs rejecting for non exixtent services



On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:16, Leonardo Boselli <leo@dicea.unifi.it> wrote:
> On some machine for which i can edvice but do not have final decision
> there sare some non-exixtent services.

If you block with tcp-reset then not only will the person connecting get a 
fast response, but someone who port scans you won't know which ports don't 
have anything listening on them and which ports are blocked by iptables.

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