> Would a null route get you an error sooner (as in, without the TCP
> timeout) than dropping the packet? Maybe not, if you use DENY rather than
> REJECT.
Hmm, maybe so if I dropped the packets rather than rejecting them. On the other hand, the amount of time it generally takes for me to get a DNS response of "no such host" seems pretty equivalent to a tcp timeout anyway.
Levi
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