Re: [tlug] Ping vs www server

["Josh Glover" <jmglov@example.com>]

On 17/04/2008, Curt Sampson <cjs@example.com> wrote:

> On 2008-04-10 17:33 -0400 (Thu), Scott Robbins wrote:
>
>  > Yes, I was simplifying.  My own scottro.net won't respond to pings
>  > either.
>
> BTW, someone want to explain to me why people do this?

I think the idea is to simply not expose anything that is not
necessary, as every service that accepts packets on your end is a
possible attack vector.

>  It's not as if it's going to stop any serious attacker, who's not even
>  going to bother with ping, but go directly to trying attacks. However, it
>  does do a good job of making debugging more difficult for the good guys.

Meh.

There are Other Ways to ping. :)

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Cheers,
Josh