On 1/25/07, Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
There are a number of common ports in the 512-1023 range. All obsolescence and meaninglessness aside, there _are_ rather "important" services in that range, ldaps, rtsp, kerberos, rsync, ftps, imaps, just to name a few from /etc/services. This map-to-random-port behavior is a total DoS thing.
Any reason why you can't make a one line code change to use a better range? Or add a blacklist? Trent - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/