On 23 April 2010 17:24, John Matthews <jake...@sky.com> wrote: > On 23/04/10 16:58, Markie wrote: > > Hi John, > > >> Now that is interesting. I did all the checks, and came back telling me I >> am 100% in stealth, but I still failed because they could ping me. > > Some routers by default block "WAN pings" some do not. My Sky router has a > field called "respond to ping on WAN port" its checked off. I passed the > test with all my ports in stealth mode. Basically the check at the link rob > passed runs a port scan against the WAN side of your router. This is if your > are connected via a router. If you connect directly via a USB modem or a > Cable modem then it will scan your PC directly. > >> Plus, it was a bit strange because on one of the things it said 'it was >> unusual to find a windows machine so completely hidden'. But I'm not using >> windows, > I'm using Ubuntu. That is amazing really considering. > > :-) I would say that its making an assumption that your running windows. > Lets face it us Linux users are pretty much in a minority at least when it > comes to the OS of choice on the desktop / laptop. > > Thanks > > Mark > > > Hi Mark, > > thats done it. Brilliant. I looked for > > "respond to ping on WAN port" > > in my router settings, found it, it was ticked, I unticked, then ran the > test again, and passed everything. > > That is brilliant. Thank you. Feel a bit better now.
Note that the ping was not getting through to your PC, it was the router that was responding to the ping. Colin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
