From: kaih@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: connectivity to bkbits.net?
Date: 29 Nov 2002 08:55:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8anf-3Gmw-B@khms.westfalen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <as6aks$amj$1@ncc1701.cistron.net>
miquels@cistron.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg) wrote on 28.11.02 in <as6aks$amj$1@ncc1701.cistron.net>:
> In article <20021128211347.D27234@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>,
> Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> >On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 06:53:00PM +0200, Kai Henningsen wrote:
> >> >From two or three traceroutes, that problem seems to be at the SGI end.
> >> >I
> >> can't get to them either (nothing after the same IP as for you, at hop
> >> #17, some place at Genuity), but you are practically next door.
> >
> >Lesson #1 of firewalling: drop everything.
> >Lesson #2 of firewalling: only accept what you absolutely have to.
>
> Lesson#3 of firewalling: due to #1 and #2 most admins block
> ICMP_UNREACH_NEEDFRAG as well (ICMP == ping == bad) breaking
> path MTUd. http://alive.znep.com/~marcs/mtu/
Lesson #4 of firewalling: a friendly firewall will (unless there are
*specific* reasons to do otherwise) allow for ICMP_UNREACH_NEEDFRAG (and
some similar things), ping, and traceroute. That's how I usually set them
up. (ping == good)
MfG Kai
prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-29 8:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-28 16:25 Larry McVoy
2002-11-28 16:53 ` Kai Henningsen
2002-11-28 21:13 ` Russell King
2002-11-28 23:59 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2002-11-29 6:55 ` Kai Henningsen [this message]
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