Re: Portsentry issue/problem

2002-07-25 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting Zelko Slamaj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > What I realized is: > .) 'till now it is safe to leave it that way but > .) those kiddies scan your computer and think that these ports _are_ indeed > open, so you have more attack-tries, which results in longer log-files and > longer ip-chains. Plus

Re: Portsentry issue/problem

2002-07-25 Thread Zelko Slamaj
On 25.07.2002 0:47 Uhr thou speakest, Crawford Rainwater these words: [..cut portsentry descr..] Hi! well, this is the way portsentry works: it "opens" the ports to the outside, but is the only daemon behind listening to the ports. And if something "naughty" (in portsentry's opinion) is going on

Re: Portsentry issue/problem

2002-07-25 Thread Tomasz Papszun
On Wed, 24 Jul 2002 at 22:47:32 +, Crawford Rainwater wrote: > > I was experimenting with Portsentry for the first time in a while, > using nmap to help scan for the open ports on a beta test box (Debian > 3.0 upgraded). > > What I noticed beforehand, ports were closed beyond 1024 (did > nma

Re: Portsentry issue/problem

2002-07-25 Thread Steve Mickeler
run "lsof -i -P" and you will see what process(es) is/are bound to the open port(s). On 24 Jul 2002, Crawford Rainwater wrote: > Folks, > > I was experimenting with Portsentry for the first time in a while, > using nmap to help scan for the open ports on a beta test box (Debian > 3.0 upgraded).

Portsentry issue/problem

2002-07-24 Thread Crawford Rainwater
Folks, I was experimenting with Portsentry for the first time in a while, using nmap to help scan for the open ports on a beta test box (Debian 3.0 upgraded). What I noticed beforehand, ports were closed beyond 1024 (did nmap -sU -sT ). After installing Portsentry, there were about 10-20 ports