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From: Volker Birk on 26 Feb 2006 11:31
Dubious Dude <Shifty(a)eyes.com> wrote:
> As I mentioned, I have spent time following up and reading, but
> I remind you again that those not in the area have many other
> professional priorities to attend to. In the end, we have only
> the information that we have digested and comprehended (with an
> attempt to incorporate your complaints) on which to base the
> decision. To insist that the decision be made with wild
> bandonment, and attention devoted to ill-understood complaints,
> is completely unreasonable.

Please read RFC 791 and 792, especially the part about ICMP Type 3,
so that you can understand, why these messages are a good idea, even
if you have a host and no own network.

Yours,
VB.
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From: Eirik Seim on 27 Feb 2006 13:18
On Sat, 25 Feb 2006 20:38:13 -0600, Moe Trin wrote:

> [ ... ] the normal stack makes three tries, so
> a ACK/RST or ICMP type 3 is better as it sends a total of two packets.

Around Windows 2000, it ignored TCP RSTs, sending three SYNs
anyways. At least a couple of machines I observed...

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