[ale] nmap and REJECT rules

[James Baldwin]

On May 9, 2005, at 12:56 PM, Christopher Fowler wrote:

> I assumed REJECT was the same as if there was nothing listening on  
> that
> port.

I'm not sure what default behavior REJECT produces if you do not  
provide a qualifier. Were you providing a --reject-with tcp-reset for  
the TCP based connections? I believe REJECT defaults to icmp port  
unreachable and not a TCP RST for REJECT.