On Monday 18 December 2006 19:29, Jon Radel wrote: > > I suppose it all comes down to such unresolvable matters such as "is > making it harder for outsiders to map your network merely security > through obscurity, which is naturally below the dignity of any right > thinking network engineer, or does it have value in today's Internet?" >
Don't forget the hilarious "ping o' death" vuln in ancient versions of various operating systems. Some on-line "block ping" 'advice' probably dates from that happy era. Yeah, totally blocking ping was overkill back then too, but was the first reaction of many.
