[ILUG] From the register. XP machine rooted in 200 seconds.

[Paul Jakma]

On Thu, 2 Dec 2004, Liam Bedford wrote:

> It was from my memory that the XP2 firewall drops ICMP by default. 
> Could be wrong.. my memory isn't as good as paul's ;)

That report wasnt terribly detailed, but is it not possible they 
recorded fewer attacks because the firewall had blocked the relevant 
ports than that it was because ICMP was blocked?

Cause I dont see tonnes of ICMP probes here, but I do see tonnes of 
cruddage directed at various udp and tcp ports (which suggests 
blocking ICMP makes 0 difference..)

> L.

regards,
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