On 2003-09-23 at 10:50, pineapple wrote:

> So far my node seems to be working ok as well as my web server, mail
> server and ftp server.  I didn't consider that these messages could
> impact my network.  What outside ICMP traffic would you NOT block
> (besides PMTU as you said)?

I have not been able to find any consensus on which ICMP packets to
allow. Personally I allow everything that Linux iptables considers
related traffic. ICMP is tricky - as an example, Linux iptables /still/
rejects with port-unreachable when it should reject with
admin-prohibited.

Oh and when you block the wrong thing, everything will seem to work.
Until someone with a low MTU link somewhere on the path to you tries to
e.g. browse your web site. They probably won't tell you that your site
is broken.


/Benny



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