You may (or may not) want to try rejecting the packets rather than dropping them.
On the downside, it lets them know your machine is there. (Dropping them illicits no response as if your machine wasn't even connected even though routers point to it.)
On the upside, it lets them know your machine is there and isn't accepting the packets, so hopefully/maybe they'll stop annoying you..
My personal preference is to reject packets rather than drop and I wonder what others thoughts and stance on this is...
Warmest regards
Mike
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| Alan L Tyree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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To: Andrew Bennetts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Slug Chat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [chat] Port 6346 |
On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 10:34, Andrew Bennetts wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 10:24:44AM +1000, Alan L Tyree wrote:
> > I have had over 100 hits on port 6346 this morning. According to
> > http://www.portsdb.org/ this port is associated with gnutella. Is this
> > part of the music "industry" raid on private users?
>
> My guess is that your internet connection is on a dynamic IP that was
> recently used by someone running gnutella.
>
Thanks to all - I'm sure this is the right explanation. My poor firewall
has gone from around 20 dropped packets a day to over 130 this morning.
>
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