Re: ICMP dest-unreach in SYN_* states of TCP

[Taral]

On Tue, 13 Jul 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> If firewalls will generate RSTs their status becomes equal to ICMP
> transient errors.

If I set a rule to reject your connection's packets, this is NOT a
transient thing. Retrying the packet will simply elicit another rejection
from the firewall... This is NOT like a temporary link failure or
something, this is an admin who doesn't want you to talk to whomever
you're talking to...

Taral

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