[OT] Routing?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 09:33:29AM -0400, phil wrote:
> Right, but in cases where I've seen that done, there's been a reject 
> message and it has affected *all* external sources.  If you're correct, 
> they're certainly doing it oddly by keeping the server port open until 
> timeout rather than dropping the unwanted connection.

Might slow down the viruses and delay how long until they try other ways
to spread their loads.  Kinda like a tarpit I guess.

Lennart Sorensen
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