FWD: RE: FW: Getting hacked by Digital Isle?

Fri Oct 26 16:01:39 UTC 2001

On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Nick Thompson wrote:

> Heh.  I've found the best solution is to neither let ICMP in or out of
> your network.  It works wonders. :)
> 
> /nick

Not *all* ICMP is bad you know. For example, I can see prohibiting
redirects coming in, but what about going _out_?  

In the real world, no "blanket acl" is likely to prove both effective
*and* useable simultaneously.

-- 
Yours, 
J.A. Terranson
sysadmin at mfn.org

If Governments really want us to behave like civilized human beings, they
should give serious consideration towards setting a better example:
Ruling by force, rather than consensus; the unrestrained application of
unjust laws (which the victim-populations were never allowed input on in
the first place); the State policy of justice only for the rich and 
elected; the intentional abuse and occassionally destruction of entire
populations merely to distract an already apathetic and numb electorate...
This type of demogoguery must surely wipe out the fascist United States
as surely as it wiped out the fascist Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

The views expressed here are mine, and NOT those of my employers,
associates, or others.  Besides, if it *were* the opinion of all of
those people, I doubt there would be a problem to bitch about in the
first place...
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