"Jon Kyme" <jrk(_at_)merseymail(_dot_)com> wrote:
You mean not accepting connections from some host drives them to
hammer on your firewall?
Yes. It increases the number of TCP SYN packets by a factor of 10
or more.
Accepting all connections increases the total traffic, but the
number of SYN packets drops dramatically.
I think that this is a truly exceptional situation.
I've seen it, as have a number of other people with spamtraps.
Alan DeKok.
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