On Sun, 5 Feb 2006 18:55:13 -0500 David Scheidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Nonsense. There may be some people that only scan well-known ports, > but it's much more common to scan every port on a machine. If you're > running a server on a non-standard port, an attacker will find it. > sure, but 99% of the time the machines attacking your server are zombies that do not care to do a full portscan. i suppose the purpose is to find other misconfigured, easy-to-hack computers on the network. by putting your services on non-standard ports you get rid of these mindless drones and don't pollute log files with useless garbage. now if somebody _does_ actually target your server in particular then this is definitely not the solution. anywayz, putting things on non-standard ports helps a lot, and is one of the first and easiest security measures an administrator may consider. Atis _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
