Re: [LUG] Another Debian Desktop

[Simon Waters <Simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Theo P. Zourzouvillys wrote:
> On Friday 28 November 2003 9:01 pm, Simon Waters wrote:
> 
>>used "netselect-apt"
> 
> 
> which uses udp packets ala traceroute to probe the remote hosts response time 
> and hops.
> 
> running uk.debian.org, i see lots of these, and it's most annoying.
> 
> random udp packets hitting high ports are dropped (for obvious reasons)

Expand on "obvious", unless you are running weird UDP based services or
are worried about trojans. Otherwise I see little issue with rejecting
rather than denying them.

If I get time I'll have a look at netselect-apt, I dare say it can be
done in a simple script.

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