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Date:      Mon, 25 Jun 2001 16:00:03 -0400
From:      "alexus" <ml@db.nexgen.com>
To:        "Peter Pentchev" <roam@orbitel.bg>, "Simon Rakovec" <simon@inforta.com>
Cc:        <freebsd-security@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: disable traceroute to my host
Message-ID:  <01ec01c0fdb1$6c9cada0$9865fea9@book>
References:  <006a01c0fb6b$2d64d830$9865fea9@book> <3B36267B.5B5FDBE@inforta.com> <20010625093731.A934@ringworld.oblivion.bg>

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i agree this is not a solution.. looks like tty=1 is best solution so far

thanks though

----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Pentchev" <roam@orbitel.bg>
To: "Simon Rakovec" <simon@inforta.com>
Cc: <freebsd-security@freebsd.org>
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 2:37 AM
Subject: Re: disable traceroute to my host


> On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 07:42:19PM +0200, Simon Rakovec wrote:
> > Try this:
> >
> > ipfw add deny udp from any 32769-65535 to <your-host> 33434-33523
>
> As Karsten noted in a followup, this is not proper network practice.
> There might be a LOT of things listening on those UDP ports, including
> ephemeral outgoing UDP connections.
>
> As many other people noted, this does not stop Windows traceroute,
> which goes via ICMP.
>
> As the traceroute(8) manpage notes, this does not stop people who
> know how to use the traceroute '-p port' option to select a starting
> port != 32768.
>
> As Dag-Erling Smoerdgrav noted, in general it is impossible to disable
> a person determined to traceroute you, and in practice, there is
> no need to.
>
> G'luck,
> Peter
>
> PS. How was that now... one source: plagiarism, two sources: comparative
> study, three sources: an academic thesis..  I did even better than that!
;)
>
> --
> Thit sentence is not self-referential because "thit" is not a word.
>
> > alexus wrote:
> > >
> > > is it possible to disable using ipfw so people won't be able to
traceroute
> > > me?
> > >
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