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 Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> wrote:

>Then, DON'T acknowledge the packet.  Pretend the network
>cable is terminated in dead air.

Can you actually do that, with a standard server? Normally every
TCP/IP packet is acked. This is deep in the system.

UDP isn't, which is why port knocking works so well.