Re: DROP or REJECT that is the question...

From: Jamie Riden (jamie.riden@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Apr 05 2007 - 12:00:54 EDT


On 03/04/07, Mohamed Abdel Kader <mak.pen@gmail.com> wrote:
> All,
>
> I wanted to gather your opinions on whether firewall rules should be Dropped
>
> Or Rejected. To me I believe that both give away the firewall rules.
>
>
>
> What does everyone out there think?

I agree. I don't think DROPping doesn't provides any extra security
but it can cause troubleshooting headaches, and long timeouts in some
cases, so I tend to reject instead.

cheers,
 Jamie

-- 
Jamie Riden, CISSP / jamesr@europe.com / jamie@honeynet.org.uk
UK Honeynet Project: http://www.ukhoneynet.org/
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