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From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: how to increase socket timeout
Date: 6 Sep 1996 08:08:06 GMT
Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden
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mark@dira.rv.tis.com (Mark Sienkiewicz) wrote:

> My firewall gives me the messages you described all the time.  I
> just ignore them.  In fact, I have a script that deletes selected
> lines from the mail the firewall sends me -- I have quite a few
> classes of messages that I know to be harmless.

It would be better to have them ignored in the first place.
Otherwise, some Bad Guy could swamp your logfiles by sending excessive
amounts of DNS packets.

-- 
J"org Wunsch					       Unix support engineer
joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de       http://www.interface-business.de/~j