> I'm aware of this fact. As I figure all my tests were done from the same > box, I'll still have to check it out. Let me test it more intensively > after this week-end and I'll let you know.
Ah, sorry, didn't mean to state the obvious. On a side-note, I don't know if anyone has ever observed (and published) that setting up a tarpit for all TCP ports can effectively defeat some forms of idle scans at the victim side. (I'm thinking in terms of a tarpit like iptables' version of it, where all blocked ports are instead tarpitted with SYN/ACKs and no further responses.) I don't see a way in which an attacker can actually determine which ports are serviceable through an idle host. Anyone else worked through the scenarios and care to point out the problems with this defense strategy? I haven't really thought through all the cases... tim _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
