Re: blackhole

pakrat_at_localhost.private.neotoma.org
Date: 10/12/03 

Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 14:22:22 GMT

On 12 Oct 2003 01:27:59 -0700 in <7733ee39.0310120027.105da67@posting.google.com> mikeg <tek_hed@hotmail.com> wrote:
> FreeBSD has the sysctl option called "net.inet.tcp.blackhole", which
> can prevent a TCP reset or ICMP unreachable from being sent in
> response to queries to ports that have nothing listening. Is there an
> equivalent option in OpenBSD and/or pf?

It's the default blocking behavior in pf. 

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Chris Dukes
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