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Block incoming pings while allowing outgoing pings
The only ICMP types that should be allowed from the Internet are 0 3 11 which are echo reply, destination unreachable and time exceeded. I don't see any reason for anyone pinging me since I don't provide any services to the world. Allowing type 8 which is echo request CAN be a security hole, but needn't. I'm a Mac newbie so forgive me about my stupidity. I come from the Linux world and my stateful firewall can also limit access to a certain number/minute or hour or what ever you prefer. This would minimize the problem of getting pod or something. I believe ipfw is a good packet level firewall which can also do such things. |
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