From: Guillaume Marcais <guslist@...>
Date: 2005-04-04T23:29:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Handling Timeout::Error from TCPSocket

On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 09:21 +0900, Pat Maddox wrote:
> I think that a lot of machines are just dropping packets now.  I've
> seen that as the default option in a lot of example firewall rulesets
> across the net lately.

Yes, a lot of firewall do not reply and just drop the packets to slow
down hostile port scanning.

Guillaume.