*** Reindl Harald wrote: > Am 11.08.2012 11:51, schrieb Michael Meyer: > >> Ping is off for a large percentage of public IPs that yet have services > >> exposed. > > > > Realy? How many (in %) you think don't answer to ping? Where did you > > get this information? > > > > Not allowing ping makes _no_ security gain. Denying ICMP is mainly > > only useful in the "Security By Obscurity" model. "Security By > > Obscurity", however, is completely useless. > > but as you can see it works just in the case of OpenVAS
No. As i explainied, ping_host.nasl doesn't rely on ICMP ping only. > "Security By Obscurity" is not a good security > but it is a dmaned good ADDITIONAL security for still hardened machines No. It implies no safety gain. Micha -- Michael Meyer OpenPGP Key: 52A6EFA6 http://www.greenbone.net/ Greenbone Networks GmbH, Neuer Graben 17, 49074 Osnabrück | AG Osnabrück, HR B 202460 Geschäftsführer: Lukas Grunwald, Dr. Jan-Oliver Wagner _______________________________________________ Openvas-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wald.intevation.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openvas-discuss
