Re: ICMP Redirect on Resolvers

2013-04-07 Thread Owen DeLong
On Apr 7, 2013, at 18:47 , valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > On Sun, 07 Apr 2013 12:25:30 -0700, Owen DeLong said: > >>> Presumably nothing, as long as you guaranteed that your IP address, netmask, >>> and routes actually match the reality of your network configuration. > >> They also cover the

Re: ICMP Redirect on Resolvers

2013-04-07 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sun, 07 Apr 2013 12:25:30 -0700, Owen DeLong said: > > Presumably nothing, as long as you guaranteed that your IP address, netmask, > > and routes actually match the reality of your network configuration. > They also cover the case where there are two (or more) routers on the > network and you

Re: ICMP Redirect on Resolvers

2013-04-07 Thread Owen DeLong
On Apr 6, 2013, at 16:03 , valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > On Sat, 06 Apr 2013 10:38:06 -0400, shawn wilson said: > >> What would break if u dropped all ICMP packets with redirects on public >> facing boxes? > > Presumably nothing, as long as you guaranteed that your IP address, netmask, > and

Re: ICMP Redirect on Resolvers

2013-04-06 Thread Jimmy Hess
On 4/6/13, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > On Sat, 06 Apr 2013 10:38:06 -0400, shawn wilson said: case, you shouldn't see any valid ICMP redirects. They're there mostly so > things kind-of-sort-of work even if you botch it (so for instance, even if > you whiff your default route accidentally,

Re: ICMP Redirect on Resolvers

2013-04-06 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sat, 06 Apr 2013 10:38:06 -0400, shawn wilson said: > What would break if u dropped all ICMP packets with redirects on public > facing boxes? Presumably nothing, as long as you guaranteed that your IP address, netmask, and routes actually match the reality of your network configuration. In th

Re: ICMP Redirect on Resolvers

2013-04-06 Thread shawn wilson
On Apr 6, 2013 3:13 AM, "Jimmy Hess" wrote: > > Failing all that, if the LANs are large, and a large number of ICMP > redirects would occur, it may be preferrable to turn ICMP redirects > off for those LANs on their routers > What would break if u dropped all ICMP packets with redirects on publ

Re: ICMP Redirect on Resolvers

2013-04-06 Thread Jimmy Hess
On 4/6/13, Keith Medcalf wrote: > Although spoofed ICMP redirects mightalso be abused to intercept/quietly sniff traffic on a switched LAN; The default gateway responding with a redirect in that situation is the normal case where you expect to receive an ICMP redirect. ; in that particular case

RE: ICMP Redirect on Resolvers

2013-04-05 Thread Keith Medcalf
> icmp redirect from 192.168.140.36: 192.168.179.80 => 192.168.140.254 The host attempted to send a packet to 192.168.179.80 via 192.168.140.36. 192.168.140.36 forwarded the packet to 192.168.140.254 according to its routing table, but is advising you (and the kernel has added to the routing t

Re: ICMP Redirect on Resolvers

2013-04-05 Thread Tony Finch
On 6 Apr 2013, at 06:36, Shahab Vahabzadeh wrote: > I have two DNS Server (resolver) running on FreeBSD 9.0, I always see in > console messages like this: > > icmp redirect from 192.168.140.36: 192.168.179.80 => 192.168.140.254 You probably configured the wrong default router address or netmask