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Re: Off Topic: iptables, ping, traceroute



William Jensen wrote on Mon Jul 16, 2001 at 02:30:29PM:
> These appear to work, however, am I overlooking something from a
> security point of view by allowing any icmp and ip's through? 

What do you think is dangeous about allowing ping/traceroute?

Neither are be used to establish a service which could be exploited, so
why so you care about denying ping / traceroute?

Matth¡as
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