[olug] portsentry

[mesc]

I thought that was it but I thought I'd better check with someone that knew
more.

                Thanks again,Gary Martin

Phil Brutsche wrote:

> A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
>
> > I installed portsentry on this box just like I had it before but before
> > my firewall rules weren't right (basically I had no firewall......yikes)
> > Now when I boot up portsentry starts but when I try and test it by
> > scanning myself with nmap the logs show no scan,is this because my
> > firewall is blocking the scans or do I have something  misconfigured in
> > portsentry?
>
> The firewall is blocking the scans - remember that the script I sent
> denies almost *all* incoming connections.  The kernel is blocking the
> connect attempt by nmap before portsentry even sees the connect attempt.
>
> > I've looked over the configuration file quite a few times and
> > everything seems right there.
>
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> Phil Brutsche                                   pbrutsch at creighton.edu
>
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> And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
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