On 2015-07-03, Sujit Acharyya-choudhury <[email protected]> wrote: > --===============2004088050== > Content-Language: en-US > Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/x-pkcs7-signature"; > micalg=SHA1; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0047_01D0B5B6.AE76A1F0" > > ------=_NextPart_000_0047_01D0B5B6.AE76A1F0 > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="utf-8" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > Just ping can cause DOS attack by Ping flooding. So if not needed for = > mail gateway, we can disable ping on our mail gateways.=20 >
most internet systems have been hardened against participating in a smurf attack. anyone wanting to DOS you would get better mileage from attacking port TCP 25, perhaps with a crafted PTR and A record. -- umop apisdn -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
