On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 16:35 -0500, McKown, John wrote: > Also, I don't respond to "pings" from outside.
There is a school of thought that says that your firewall is broken. RFC1122: "Every host MUST implement an ICMP Echo server function that receives Echo Requests and sends corresponding Echo Replies". (However the RFC bends a little, allowing you to silently discard ICMP echo requests that arrive on a broadcast address.) As a practical matter, disabling ICMP echo reply does little to improve security on your end. Run something like nessus against your site from the outside and see what it finds. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
