Questions about responding to Pings

[Mike]

You know, I was reading this and thought, 'YEA! I want to be obscure.' So 
guarddog was opened and the hunt for disabling pings began; unfortunately, I 
couldn't find how to disable ping replies. Any suggestions? But I did see 
remopte ssh login and remembered that I should block that..... or should I?

On Sunday 19 February 2006 13:52, Siri Amrit Kaur wrote:
> 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