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Date:      Mon, 8 Jul 2002 07:45:50 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Don Lewis <dl-freebsd@catspoiler.org>
To:        rgbrenner@myrealbox.com
Cc:        laurence@fluxinc.com, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: hiding OS name
Message-ID:  <200207081445.g68Ejowr000591@gw.catspoiler.org>
In-Reply-To: <200207080834.53431.rgbrenner@myrealbox.com>

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On  8 Jul, Ramsey G. Brenner wrote:
> From /sys/i386/conf/LINT
> #
> # TCP_DROP_SYNFIN adds support for ignoring TCP packets with SYN+FIN. This
> # prevents nmap et al. from identifying the TCP/IP stack, but breaks support
> # for RFC1644 extensions and is not recommended for web servers.

Only until someone enhances nmap to detect this signature and identify
the host as running FreeBSD with the TCP_DROP_SYNFIN option enabled.


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