Block connection in firewall -

[Joe Zeff]

On 02/12/2016 01:34 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:
> Carrying that further, set up the firewall to block all incoming traffic
> initially and use "DROP" as the target--NOT "REJECT". The reason to use
> DROP is that "REJECT" actually returns a response to a probe which
> essentially says "Yeah, there's a machine here, but I'm not interested
> in you". That makes you a target for DDOS or script-kiddie break-in
> attempts. "DROP" just drops the packets with no response so your machine
> appears to not be there at all.

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