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Re: ISP and DNS port scanning!



On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 10:50:02PM +0000, Antony Gelberg wrote:
 
> Looks like a ping (ICMP type 8).  Where do you get port scanning from?
> FWIW, I think that blocking pings via a firewall isn't recommended, but
> not sure why.

It does not provide any kind of security or protection what-so-ever,
whilst removing the proper way of other people / you from elsewhere
determining if your connection is working ok.

-- 
Jon Dowland
http://jon.dowland.name/



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