On 2015-07-03, Sujit Acharyya-choudhury <s.choudhury@???> wrote:
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> Just ping can cause DOS attack by Ping flooding. So if not needed for =
> mail gateway, we can disable ping on our mail gateways.=20
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most internet systems have been hardened against participating in a
smurf attack. anyone wanting to DOS you would get better mileage from
attacking port TCP 25, perhaps with a crafted PTR and A record.
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