On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 06:33:30PM -0500, Daniel Sterling wrote:
> Adding a firewall will only help things, and it certainly can't hurt.
This is generally true, but an improperly configured firewall can be
worse than no firewall. If it creates new vulnerabilities, or if it is
obtrusive and causes
> The 'filtered' ones are probably filtered by your ISP. I can understand (but
> don't share) why they block port 25 or port 445) but I wonder why a ISP
> would filter out port 80, aren't people allowed to have a web server at home?
I don't know if you remember the CodeRed and Nimba worms that wer
X in Debian by default uses -nolisten tcp, why is it open?
Also, read the XSecurity man page-- just because the port is open does
not mean it is accessible.
However, you should as a rule disable anything that listens to the
internet if you don't need it. You should also, if possible, use
hos
On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 11:02:33PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> this is the nmap -sT scan from a friend:
I guess you both are not in the same ISP
>
> > nmap -sT internet_address
>
> Port State Service
> 25/tcp filteredsmtp
> 46/tcp openmpm-snd
> 8
He has no firewall (like me) as he's saying a firewall is nothing good
and not usefull but there's an open X11 server available in the
internet.
A firewall is one of the best things you can have and should always run.
Isn't this vulnerable without a firewall ?
Yes. Both of you should s
Hi,
this is the nmap -sT scan from a friend:
> nmap -sT internet_address
Port State Service
25/tcp filteredsmtp
46/tcp openmpm-snd
80/tcp filtered http
119/tcp open nntp
445/tcp filtered microsoft-ds
1080/tcp filtered socks
600
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