I like to look at it the other way around. "What ports not to block?". I block ALL
ports except for the ones that *I* want to get through. This increases the security
of your firewall, because you have only allowed the ports that YOU want open.
...adam
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 12:57:24PM -0700, Brandon High wrote:
> Does anyone have a recommendation of ports that should be blocked (via
> ipchains/netfilter/etc) to make a system more secure?
>
> In light of the recent security holes, I did a netstat -an, then lsof -i for
> all ports that were listening and/or UDP. I put a filter in the way of
> everything that I didn't want externally visible, but UDP port 1028 shows
> nothing listening lsof. I blocked it out of principle, but does anyone know
> what it might be?
>
> -B
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