On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Chris Keladis wrote: > The only bad thing about 'rejecting' i can think of, is TCP/IP stack > fingerprinting of the returned RST packet. as already said, "so what?" you're already connecting to them (to send the mail), they know you exist and, due to the joys of passive OS fingerprinting, they know what OS you're running typically. nothing gained. ____________________________ jose nazario joseat_private PGP: 89 B0 81 DA 5B FD 7E 00 99 C3 B2 CD 48 A0 07 80 PGP key ID 0xFD37F4E5 (pgp.mit.edu) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This list is provided by the SecurityFocus ARIS analyzer service. For more information on this free incident handling, management and tracking system please see: http://aris.securityfocus.com
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