Re: Opening ports in Shorewall in order to run an America's Army server

2007-02-23 Thread Jan Stępień
On 23 Lut, 11:10, Liam O'Toole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 23:30:10 +0100 > > Jan Stępień <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Liam wrote: > > > Are you sure that the server is listening on the ports you think > > > it's listening on? Whats is the output of the command 'netstat > > >

Re: Opening ports in Shorewall in order to run an America's Army server

2007-02-23 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 23:30:10 +0100 Jan Stępień <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Liam wrote: > > Are you sure that the server is listening on the ports you think > > it's listening on? Whats is the output of the command 'netstat > > -uta'? And if it is, are there any application-level restrictions? > >

Re: Opening ports in Shorewall in order to run an America's Army server

2007-02-22 Thread Jan Stępień
Liam wrote: > Are you sure that the server is listening on the ports you think it's > listening on? Whats is the output of the command 'netstat -uta'? > And if it is, are there any application-level restrictions? It might > only be accepting connections from certain source IP addresses. I've run t

Re: Opening ports in Shorewall in order to run an America's Army server

2007-02-10 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 14:29:22 +0100 Jan Stępień <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I've been trying to set up an America's Army game server on my Debian > server box. Having already configured an Apache webserver and few > other services such as SSH, and a MySQL database I thought that

Re: Opening ports in Shorewall in order to run an America's Army server

2007-02-10 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 03:38:49PM +0100, Jan St??pie?? wrote: > On 10 Lut, 14:30, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Could it be that you've opened the ports to allow connection attempts > > from the net to your box but not from your box to the net? You are > > telneting _out_ so

Re: Opening ports in Shorewall in order to run an America's Army server

2007-02-10 Thread Jan Stępień
On 10 Lut, 14:30, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Could it be that you've opened the ports to allow connection attempts > from the net to your box but not from your box to the net? You are > telneting _out_ so you would need to open from fw to net as well. It doesn't help. Take a

Re: Opening ports in Shorewall in order to run an America's Army server

2007-02-10 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 02:29:22PM +0100, Jan St??pie?? wrote: > After successfully installing and, hopefully, correctly configuring AA > server I was unable to connect to it. Accordingly to instructions given > at http://manual.americasarmy.com/index.php/Linux_Server I've opened > ports listed at

Re: opening ports

2006-12-11 Thread Mike McCarty
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 06:56:49PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 05:06:08PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: [snip] Are you using "service" in the technical sense? Like FTP, for example? My firewall drops all packets, just like n

Re: opening ports

2006-12-11 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 06:56:49PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: > >On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 05:06:08PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > > [snip] > > >>Are you using "service" in the technical sense? Like FTP, for > >>example? My firewall drops all packets, just like no daemon > >

Re: opening ports

2006-12-11 Thread Mike McCarty
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 05:06:08PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: [snip] Are you using "service" in the technical sense? Like FTP, for example? My firewall drops all packets, just like no daemon were running. AFAIK if you have no firewall and no daemon listening there is

Re: opening ports

2006-12-11 Thread Mike McCarty
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 11:23:26PM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: IP address anyway. Even if you drop *every* incoming packet, an attacker still knows that you are there from the absence of an ICMP message from your ISP's router that there is no computer with your IP address.

Re: opening ports

2006-12-11 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 02:09:43AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 11:23:26PM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > IP address anyway. Even if you drop *every* incoming packet, an attacker > > still knows that you are there from the absence of an ICMP message from > > your ISP's ro

Re: opening ports

2006-12-11 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 11:23:26PM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: > IP address anyway. Even if you drop *every* incoming packet, an attacker > still knows that you are there from the absence of an ICMP message from > your ISP's router that there is no computer with your IP address. Interesting. If I

Re: opening ports

2006-12-11 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 05:06:08PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: > >On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 03:30:16PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > >>Andrei Popescu wrote: > >> > >>>On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 08:28:16AM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: > >>> > Bruce: > > > >1) How wo

Re: opening ports

2006-12-11 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 05:06:08PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > > Are you using "service" in the technical sense? Like FTP, for > example? My firewall drops all packets, just like no daemon > were running. Above, the word service was used with reference > to "daemon", and I took it to mean the IP

Re: opening ports

2006-12-11 Thread Mike McCarty
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 03:30:16PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 08:28:16AM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: Bruce: 1) How would I open ftp ports after doing an apt-get install proftpd? On Debian, all ports are "open" by defau

Re: opening ports

2006-12-11 Thread Mike McCarty
Jochen Schulz wrote: Mike McCarty: Andrei Popescu wrote: firewall are sometimes called "filtered" (by nmap) or "stealth" (by some Windows firewalls). A stealthed port appears not to exist to the external world, but that does not mean that there is no service "listening" on it. "Stealthe

Re: opening ports

2006-12-11 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 03:30:16PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: > >On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 08:28:16AM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: > >>Bruce: > >> > >>>1) How would I open ftp ports after doing an apt-get install proftpd? > >> > >>On Debian, all ports are "open" by default (but

Re: opening ports

2006-12-11 Thread Jochen Schulz
Mike McCarty: > Andrei Popescu wrote: > >> firewall are sometimes called "filtered" (by nmap) or "stealth" (by >> some Windows firewalls). > > A stealthed port appears not to exist to the external world, > but that does not mean that there is no service "listening" > on it. "Stealthed" almost al

Re: opening ports

2006-12-11 Thread Mike McCarty
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 08:28:16AM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: Bruce: 1) How would I open ftp ports after doing an apt-get install proftpd? On Debian, all ports are "open" by default (but there are not many services listening, so it doesn't matter). If a service is bei

Re: opening ports

2006-12-11 Thread Jochen Schulz
Andrei Popescu: > On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 08:28:16AM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > > > On Debian, all ports are "open" by default (but there are not many > > services listening, so it doesn't matter). If a service is being > > installed, it can be assumed that it should actually be available. FT

Re: opening ports

2006-12-11 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 08:28:16AM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Bruce: > > > > 1) How would I open ftp ports after doing an apt-get install proftpd? > > On Debian, all ports are "open" by default (but there are not many > services listening, so it doesn't matter). If a service is being > install

Re: opening ports

2006-12-10 Thread Jochen Schulz
Bruce: > > 1) How would I open ftp ports after doing an apt-get install proftpd? On Debian, all ports are "open" by default (but there are not many services listening, so it doesn't matter). If a service is being installed, it can be assumed that it should actually be available. FTP uses ports 20

Re: opening ports & i feel dumb

2003-08-27 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 03:22:21AM -0400, Ashley Graham wrote: > I forgot to thank those cats who helped me, > sorry it took so long, slipped my mind. Woohoo! Another win for the Irken army! - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :

Re: opening ports & i feel dumb

2003-08-27 Thread Ashley Graham
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Re: opening ports & i feel dumb

2003-08-23 Thread Stefan Waidele jun.
amg wrote: > recently switched to debian after years with windows, i am enjoying > the experience, although at times i get frustrated - i know that is > my fault and not my computer (or operating system - or linux - or > debian - or yours) > > my current dilemma is with ports: > > understanding the

Re: opening ports & i feel dumb

2003-08-23 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 11:56:41PM -0400, Luke Reeves wrote: > Also, you might wanna check out mldonkey - it's a much nicer replacement > for the official client, and includes an easy web interface. xmule may be more stable and less obnoxious to Wind

Re: opening ports & i feel dumb

2003-08-23 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Please turn your line wraps on to 72 columns so we don't have to do linewrap gymnastics to read it. On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 09:37:18PM -0400, amg wrote: > while looking at "/etc/inet.dconf" and "/etc/services" i see that > these programs and/or servic

Re: opening ports & i feel dumb

2003-08-22 Thread Luke Reeves
Whoah, slow down there. eDonkey automatically listens on the ports - just start the program and it'll work like magic. The INETD server is for programs that should be spawned only when a connection is made to a port. For most network programs, this isn't required. Also, you might wanna check