also sprach Chris Wagner <wagnerc@plebeian.com> [2002.01.11.0205 +0100]:
> Well, the rationale behind this is as you touched on, preventing
> spoofed address attacks. A paranoid lookup essentially verifies that
> the connecting system is a known legit host. In effect you're using
> your DNS system as another level of authentication. Say somebody
> wants to covertly log on or attack your system, so they give
> themselves a bogus ip. A paranoid lookup will stop that because
> there's no DNS entry. (I won't get into the mechanisms of these spoof
> type attacks)
a bogus IP won't even make it past OSI layer 4 on debian... rp_filter...
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interesting signature. serious or not?
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