DoS, ICMP, proxies, SYNDefender

Thu Oct 3 21:49:07 UTC 1996

>From: Tim Bass <bass at linux.silkroad.com>
>
>I feel like a cheerleader 'Give me an U N R E A C H A B L E'
>wha-at-ya-got .........

   Tim, unfortunately ICMP UNREACHABLE can be sent some intermediate
router during routing flip process. For this reason some customer
prefer cut off this sort of ICMP - it would break running TCP connection.

					- Leonid Yegoshin, LY22