Re: What to do with attackers?
On Friday 04 November 2005 15:37, Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Am Freitag, den 04.11.2005, 09:30 -0500 schrieb Gene Heskett:
>> Rejecting the attackers packets just confirms
>> that you are indeed there. I'd much druther just be a black hole, a
>> bottomless bit bucket per sei.
>
>Please compare:
>
>This host does not exist:
># ping 192.168.0.123
>
>PING 192.168.0.123 (192.168.0.123) 56(84) bytes of data.
>From 192.168.0.69 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable
>From 192.168.0.69 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable
>From 192.168.0.69 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable
>From 192.168.0.69 icmp_seq=4 Destination Host Unreachable
>From 192.168.0.69 icmp_seq=5 Destination Host Unreachable
>From 192.168.0.69 icmp_seq=6 Destination Host Unreachable
>
>--- 192.168.0.123 ping statistics ---
>7 packets transmitted, 0 received, +6 errors, 100% packet loss, time
>6096ms, pipe 3
>
>
>
>And this one drops packages:
>
># ping www.mopo.de
>PING www.mopo.de (62.201.164.170) 56(84) bytes of data.
>
>--- www.mopo.de ping statistics ---
>37 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 36017ms
>
>
>
>
>See the difference?
>
>So, the best way is to tell the other machine:
>"I am there, but you will not get in. Go away."
>
>
>Most attackers will anyway hammer your machine and not care about the
>difference.
>
>Bye, Ratti
Well, that could happen I guess, but here, theres no log record of it
occuring.
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