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Re: new, not nice web bots disposal



On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 08:22:53AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Thursday 27 February 2020 03:56:07 tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 11:59:27PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > What if they ignore that RST too?
> >
> > Read -- at least skim that wikipedia article (oh, I forgot the ref
> > in my other mail upthread, sorry. Here it is:
> >
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_Control_Protocol
> 
> People write software, dishonest people write software to do what they 
> want to achieve.  And I've walked around in OP software enough in the 
> past to have seen stuff I know damned well had to be on purpose.

Had you followed my advice, you'd know by now that the lowest layer
of your network stack in Linux will throw away any packets arriving
from the other side if "they ignore the RST".

Cheers
-- t

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