iptables: drop or reject?

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Fri Oct 26 08:08:05 UTC 2007


Tim:
>> /me wonders if you could create a firewall rule that redirected them to
>> connect to their own IP, after a while, so that they attack themselves.

Manuel Arostegui Ramirez:
> Hehe, that reminds me what I was working as a sysadmin some years ago and we 
> did exactly what you're talking about against a box outside our network that 
> was trying to DoS us, was really funny :-)

I was told a tale of some clever-clogs on IRC proclaiming that they
could take anybody off the air, any time that they wanted.  So someone
in the channel told them, "my IP is 127.0.0.1, try your hardest."  'twas
amusing to all others in the channel, watching them repeatedly
disappear.  ;-)

I dare say that it'd be funny to redirect one set of crackers onto
another, if you happened to find out the addresses of two independent
mobs at the same time.

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