On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 10:07:18AM -0500, Lee wrote: > On 2/27/20, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 11:25:53PM -0500, Lee wrote: > > > > [...] > > > >> You're advertising your web server in your sig. The "other side" > >> ALREADY KNOWS you have a web server there. > > > > If that "other side" is reading your emails, that is. > > > > Not a likely scenario if that "other side" is some malware > > running in some whatever-of-things lightbulb or cat feeder. > > This thread is NOT about likely scenarios; we're talking about > > | over the last 90 days or so, we seem to have been plauged with a new > | breed of bots [...]
> I'm saying it might be better to reject than drop. Watch the logs and > if the A-H's ignore RSTs then go back to drop. I disagree. DROP is the right thing on the Big Bad Internet. And I explained upthread why: better to not let "them" know that you even are there. Another reason: one less useless packet crossing the Internet. Cheers -- t
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