DoS, ICMP, proxies, SYNDefender

Fri Oct 4 12:57:29 UTC 1996

(Doing my usual reiteration thing) routers _cannot_ generate UNREACH
for every host. Routers don't usually generate UNREACH for dead hosts
on ethernet/FDDI (should they, anyway?). Routers cannot generate
UNREACH for hosts that (for whatever reason) don't respond to spurious
SYN/ACKs.

Dima

Tim Bass writes:
> 
> I feel like a cheerleader 'Give me an U N R E A C H A B L E'
> wha-at-ya-got .........
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Tim
> 
> 