Questions about responding to Pings

[Siri Amrit Kaur]

On Sunday 19 February 2006 11:31 am, Anthony kindly wrote:
> Not responding to pings is more "security by obscurity" than anything
> useful.  You can still be port scanned if ping replies are disabled,
> and you can still be subject to a denial of service attack.  And of
> course, if you WERE running exploitable services for the outside
> world, they could still be connected to.  Blocking pings can also make
>  it harder to do basic troubleshooting, particularly in larger
> networks.  It probably won't cause you much grief to block ping
> replies, but it won't gain you much in the way of being more secure.
>
>
> Anthony

This makes me feel better. I'll probably just let it be. If I decide to block 
pings I might look into Guarddog because when I was using it on other 
installations they didn't respond to pings. 

Thanks to you both.

Siri Amrit



>
> On 2/19/06, Siri Amrit Kaur <tigerflag at tigerflag.com> wrote:
> > I'd like to learn about Pings. I did a port scan test and all my ports
> > are in stealth mode, but my system responded to pings and the test
> > results said that was a security risk. If that's true, how do I make it
> > not respond to pings? Is there a SIMPLE way to do this? I'm scared to go
> > mucking about in iptables.
> >
> > A little info on my setup:
> > I'm using PCLOS (based on Mandrake) and the Shorewall firewall, on a
> > standalone box with a DSL modem/router. I'm not running any servers. I
> > have the software firewall in the modem turned off because it was
> > screwing some things up.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Siri Amrit
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