Re: Open ports

2015-05-09 Thread Bob Proulx
Christian Seiler wrote: > Bill wrote: > > what uses them and why shouldn't I close them? > > (I'm assuming there must be a good reason to have wide open ports.) It is debatable whether the old Sun RPC services should be installed by default. I do use and manage NFS but

Re: Open ports

2015-05-09 Thread Christian Seiler
On 05/09/2015 01:25 PM, Bill wrote: > I'm still running wheezy but noticed a couple of open ports the other > day. This is just a simple laptop - no nfs access needed, no need for a > networked port mapper, and certainly not a dns server. > > So why are they there, Well,

Open ports

2015-05-09 Thread Bill
Hi, I'm still running wheezy but noticed a couple of open ports the other day. This is just a simple laptop - no nfs access needed, no need for a networked port mapper, and certainly not a dns server. So why are they there, what uses them and why shouldn't I close them? (I'm

Re: Other Open Ports

2012-07-24 Thread Mike McClain
Howdy, On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 01:21:55PM -0500, Charles Kroeger wrote: > I'm thinking my firewall 'Shorewall' encompasses an extensive enough design to > cover any attempts of intrusion that may occur, I do notice notwithstanding, > that > although ports 0 and 1 are closed, they still show up on

Re: Other Open Ports

2012-07-23 Thread Bob Proulx
Charles Kroeger wrote: > PORT STATE SERVICE > 25/tcp open smtp > 53/tcp open domain > 111/tcp open rpcbind > 631/tcp open ipp > 6566/tcp open sane-port That seems pretty reasonable. Except if you aren't using NFS and don't need the portmapper (rpcbind) then I would uninstall it. >

Re: Other Open Ports

2012-07-23 Thread Charles Kroeger
>Try probing your system with nmap and see what it > says. > nmap localhost Thanks for this information, I didn't have nmap installed..however after I did install nmap I received this: /charles# nmap localhost Starting Nmap 6.00 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2012-07-23 22:30 CDT Nmap scan report for

Re: Other Open Ports

2012-07-23 Thread Bob Proulx
Charles Kroeger wrote: > I'm thinking my firewall 'Shorewall' encompasses an extensive enough design to > cover any attempts of intrusion that may occur, I do notice notwithstanding, > that > although ports 0 and 1 are closed, they still show up on test like grc.com's > 'shields-up' port scanner.

Other Open Ports

2012-07-23 Thread Charles Kroeger
I'm thinking my firewall 'Shorewall' encompasses an extensive enough design to cover any attempts of intrusion that may occur, I do notice notwithstanding, that although ports 0 and 1 are closed, they still show up on test like grc.com's 'shields-up' port scanner. I know that 0 is not a port and

Re: securing the system, stopping unnecessary services and closing open ports.

2011-08-29 Thread Johann Spies
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 02:46:52PM +0200, yudi v wrote: > > > Probably portmap... > > See if it's installed > $ dpkg --get-selections portmap > > If it is, and it bothers you, it can be removed - check and see if > anything > uses it:- > # apt-get -s remove portmap | le

Re: securing the system, stopping unnecessary services and closing open ports.

2011-08-29 Thread yudi v
> > Probably portmap... > > See if it's installed > $ dpkg --get-selections portmap > > If it is, and it bothers you, it can be removed - check and see if anything > uses it:- > # apt-get -s remove portmap | less > > If it's the only package to be removed:- > # apt-get --purge remove portmap > > Ch

Re: securing the system, stopping unnecessary services and closing open ports.

2011-08-29 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 29/08/11 18:35, yudi v wrote: I purged the above files but still have� the following service running. 111/tcp open� rpcbind -- Kind regards, Yudi Probably portmap... See if it's installed $ dpkg --get-selections portmap If it is, and it bothers you, it can be removed - check a

Re: securing the system, stopping unnecessary services and closing open ports.

2011-08-29 Thread yudi v
> > The following packages will be REMOVED: > cifs-utils libnfsidmap2 nfs-common nfs-kernel-server samba samba-common > samba-common-bin samba-doc smbclient smbfs swat winbind > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 12 to remove and 4 not upgraded. > Remv smbfs [2:4.5-2] > Remv cifs-utils [2:4.5-2] >

Re: securing the system, stopping unnecessary services and closing open ports.

2011-08-28 Thread yudi v
> > # apt-get --purge remove libnfsidmap2 nfs-common samba > > if you don't use samba at all (cifs-utils samba samba-common > samba-common-bin smbfs) then change "samba" to "samba*" > > I'd suggest using -s instead of --purge first - just in case samba was > originally pulled in by another package

Re: securing the system, stopping unnecessary services and closing open ports.

2011-08-28 Thread yudi v
http://myip.dk/ will give you the remote access address. Just ssh to the displayed address. I'd suggest you try - it's easier than just believing everything you read on whirlpool. The signal to noise ratio there can be bad. Exetel have good tech support - Vodaphail don't even know where their tower

Re: securing the system, stopping unnecessary services and closing open ports.

2011-08-28 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 28/08/11 18:37, yudi v wrote: my system IP for ppp0 is 101.***.***.*** and it's not static. but from what I can remember all postpaid accounts in Australia have 10.***.***.*** addresses and are behind NAT. I've yet to see any (non-SLA business class) USB UMTS modems by any of the

Re: securing the system, stopping unnecessary services and closing open ports.

2011-08-28 Thread yudi v
> I use postpaid mobile broadband and my IP is both the system address and >> the gateway. There is no NAT with postpaid service, it's only available >> with prepaid in Australia. Not sure why. >> > > Not sure what you mean there I suspect you mean only postpaid allow a > static IP address (for

Re: securing the system, stopping unnecessary services and closing open ports.

2011-08-27 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 28/08/11 11:39, yudi v wrote: Just to clarify my post. This is a new install and I was a bit careless while installing. It has no data on it. I was more concerned with LUKS+LVM working at install. I did not realize I selected to install SSH, I do not use Samba or NFS not sure how those got ins

Re: securing the system, stopping unnecessary services and closing open ports.

2011-08-27 Thread yudi v
Just to clarify my post. This is a new install and I was a bit careless while installing. It has no data on it. I was more concerned with LUKS+LVM working at install. I did not realize I selected to install SSH, I do not use Samba or NFS not sure how those got installed. Again it might have been an

Re: securing the system, stopping unnecessary services and closing open ports.

2011-08-27 Thread Aniruddha
On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 5:05 PM, yudi v wrote: > Nmap suggests the following ports are open: > > 25/tcp open smtp > 111/tcp open rpcbind > 139/tcp open netbios-ssn > 445/tcp open microsoft-ds > 631/tcp open ipp > 901/tcp open samba-swat > 2049/tcp open nfs > > Which nmap command did

Re: securing the system, stopping unnecessary services and closing open ports.

2011-08-27 Thread Ralf Jung
Hi, > ipp is CUPS, the network printing server, and you know whether you need > that. Now that you mention it... I also see cups listening on all devices: $ sudo netstat -nlp Active Internet connections (only servers) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State

Re: securing the system, stopping unnecessary services and closing open ports.

2011-08-27 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 08/27/2011 02:43 PM, Brian wrote: A natural history expedition searching for unicorns and dodos would have as much success as these two programs are likely to have. I was once on a natural history expedition. We found no unicorns, but we did find dodos. We weren't looking for them, but we

Re: securing the system, stopping unnecessary services and closing open ports.

2011-08-27 Thread Brian
On Sat 27 Aug 2011 at 17:16:16 +0100, Joe wrote: > On Sun, 28 Aug 2011 01:05:47 +1000 > yudi v wrote: > > > > how can I find out if this system has been compromised? > > You can try chkrootkit and rkhunter, but the latter at least works A natural history expedition searching for unicorns and d

Re: securing the system, stopping unnecessary services and closing open ports.

2011-08-27 Thread Brian
On Sun 28 Aug 2011 at 01:05:47 +1000, yudi v wrote: > Nmap suggests the following ports are open: > > 25/tcp open smtp > 111/tcp open rpcbind > 139/tcp open netbios-ssn > 445/tcp open microsoft-ds > 631/tcp open ipp > 901/tcp open samba-swat > 2049/tcp open nfs > > I run a desktop

Re: securing the system, stopping unnecessary services and closing open ports.

2011-08-27 Thread Chris Brennan
On 8/27/2011 11:38 AM, Brad Alexander wrote: > Ports 139, 445 and 901 are samba running. Port 631 is cups, your printer > driver. 111 and 2049 are for NFS. If you don't need them, you should be > able to turn them off...If you do need it, then you should be able to > firewall it, using iptables to

Re: securing the system, stopping unnecessary services and closing open ports.

2011-08-27 Thread Joe
ufw application and several other 'firewalls' are front ends to iptables/netfilter, the actual packet filter. Use netstat to check what services you have listening, and on which interfaces. Most services can be configured to listen only to some interfaces, and many only need to use localho

Re: securing the system, stopping unnecessary services and closing open ports.

2011-08-27 Thread Brad Alexander
Ports 139, 445 and 901 are samba running. Port 631 is cups, your printer driver. 111 and 2049 are for NFS. If you don't need them, you should be able to turn them off...If you do need it, then you should be able to firewall it, using iptables to limit access to the hosts or subnets you need. On S

securing the system, stopping unnecessary services and closing open ports.

2011-08-27 Thread yudi v
Nmap suggests the following ports are open: 25/tcp open smtp 111/tcp open rpcbind 139/tcp open netbios-ssn 445/tcp open microsoft-ds 631/tcp open ipp 901/tcp open samba-swat 2049/tcp open nfs I run a desktop email client that uses smtp apart from that I do not know why rest of the a

Re: howto check open ports ?

2006-02-23 Thread Mike McCarty
Oliver Lupton wrote: On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 17:31:49 -0500 Stephen R Laniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 10:26:05PM +, Oliver Lupton wrote: My router/firewall blocks all ports, including those over 1023 (1024?) I assume you mean that your router *can*, not that it ne

Re: howto check open ports ?

2006-02-23 Thread Peter McAlpine
Akbulut wrote: > > hi all, > > i am now behind a firewall [at dormitory], and i want to check open ports. > > is there a handy program that does this job for me ;) > > nmap will do it if you know your IP address and can run nmap from another > network. > > BTW, a

Re: howto check open ports ?

2006-02-23 Thread Dexter
try command "nmap ip_address" On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 00:12 +, Oliver Lupton wrote: > On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 17:31:49 -0500 > Stephen R Laniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 10:26:05PM +, Oliver Lupton wrote: > > > My router/firewall blocks all ports, including those

Re: howto check open ports ?

2006-02-22 Thread Oliver Lupton
On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 17:31:49 -0500 Stephen R Laniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 10:26:05PM +, Oliver Lupton wrote: > > My router/firewall blocks all ports, including those over 1023 (1024?) > > I assume you mean that your router *can*, not that it > necessarily does.

Re: howto check open ports ?

2006-02-22 Thread Philippe De Ryck
On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 16:24 -0500, Stephen R Laniel wrote: > On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 11:18:41PM +0200, Mehmet Fatih Akbulut wrote: > > i am now behind a firewall [at dormitory], and i want to check open ports. > > is there a handy program that does this job for me ;) > > want

Re: howto check open ports ?

2006-02-22 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wednesday 22 February 2006 13:18, Mehmet Fatih Akbulut wrote: > hi all, > i am now behind a firewall [at dormitory], and i want to check open ports. > is there a handy program that does this job for me ;) nmap will do it if you know your IP address and can run nmap from another netw

Re: howto check open ports ?

2006-02-22 Thread Oliver Lupton
On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 16:24:54 -0500 Stephen R Laniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > it's not going to tell you that ports 8080 and above are > open, because they always are. My router/firewall blocks all ports, including those over 1023 (1024?) Cheers, -ol -- I will live forever, or die trying.

Re: howto check open ports ?

2006-02-22 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 10:26:05PM +, Oliver Lupton wrote: > My router/firewall blocks all ports, including those over 1023 (1024?) I assume you mean that your router *can*, not that it necessarily does. It seems like it would be awfully inconvenient to block all such ports, given that program

Re: howto check open ports ?

2006-02-22 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 11:18:41PM +0200, Mehmet Fatih Akbulut wrote: > i am now behind a firewall [at dormitory], and i want to check open ports. > is there a handy program that does this job for me ;) > want to find an open port for apache to run. > because 80. port blocked to people

howto check open ports ?

2006-02-22 Thread Mehmet Fatih Akbulut
hi all,i am now behind a firewall [at dormitory], and i want to check open ports. is there a handy program that does this job for me ;)want to find an open port for apache to run. because 80. port blocked to people outside the dorm. i both need an openport seeker program and info if apache will

Re: Open ports in Debian

2005-11-23 Thread Tim Ruehsen
Hi Rutger, > PORTSTATE SERVICE > 22/tcp open ssh > 25/tcp open smtp > 80/tcp open http > 111/tcp open rpcbind > 113/tcp open auth > 903/tcp open iss-console-mgr Before starting nmap, use netstat. You can find out which program uses which port with netstat -tulpen for your in

Re: Open ports in Debian

2005-11-22 Thread Michael Gregg
port 111 will be used by rpc processes like NIS and NFS. port 113 is identd, used to identify the "owner" of a connection. port 903... I'm not sure. If you box is up on the world. I would suggest making a iptables(or equivilent) script that will block all but the wanted ports. IE, having the

Re: Open ports in Debian

2005-11-22 Thread mikepolniak
On 00:54 Wed 23 Nov , Rutger Wessels wrote: > Hello, > > I administer a debian installation that is connected to the Internet. > When I run nmap, I found the following: > Starting nmap 3.81 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2005-11-23 00:29 CET > Interesting ports on xx > (The 1657

Re: Open ports in Debian

2005-11-22 Thread Oliver Lupton
On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 00:54:13 +0100 Rutger Wessels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 113/tcp open auth That's an 'ident' daemon I believe. _very_ primitive "security", some braindead IRC networks require it to be running and doubtlessly other things will require it too. HTH -ol -- I will live for

Open ports in Debian

2005-11-22 Thread Rutger Wessels
Hello, I administer a debian installation that is connected to the Internet. When I run nmap, I found the following: Starting nmap 3.81 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2005-11-23 00:29 CET Interesting ports on xx (The 1657 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed) POR

Re: All these open ports

2004-10-26 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 19:44:06 -0600, Dana J. Laude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Or better yet, Jon should checkout the following link: > http://www.debian.org/doc/user-manuals#securing > > The harden-doc is outdated except on unstable, so you're better > off reading the online version at the above

Re: All these open ports

2004-09-23 Thread Frederik Dannemare
On Tuesday 21 September 2004 11:57, Tom Allison wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>If a port is open, and associated with a program which isn't from a > >>debian package and you don't believe you put it there yourself - > >> its time to consider the possibility your machine has been > >> comprom

Re: All these open ports

2004-09-22 Thread Johann Koenig
On Wednesday September 22 at 02:36pm Dave Howorth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tom Allison wrote: > > More importantly today is to understand how 99.9% of the virus and > > malware is transmitted today. It's not through unfiltered ports and > > such as described in your original email, but throu

Re: All these open ports

2004-09-22 Thread Dave Howorth
Tom Allison wrote: More importantly today is to understand how 99.9% of the virus and malware is transmitted today. It's not through unfiltered ports and such as described in your original email, but through the email mechanism (or http) itself. And while I don't have any hard numbers at my d

Re: All these open ports

2004-09-22 Thread Tim Kelley
On Tuesday 21 September 2004 04:57, Tom Allison wrote: > > At the risk of provoking the usual "WELL GO RUN WINDOWS THEN!!!" > > knee-jerk reaction, I will mention that the Gatesware-based firewall > > packages (like "Zone Alarm") will detect *outgoing* connection attempts > > and query whether the

Re: All these open ports

2004-09-21 Thread Tom Allison
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If a port is open, and associated with a program which isn't from a debian package and you don't believe you put it there yourself - its time to consider the possibility your machine has been compromised. Okay... that gives me an opening to try this again. At the risk of

Re: All these open ports

2004-08-25 Thread Robert Vangel
ShieldsUP! isn't a firewall, it's just a service which port scans you and tells you the results. Mezig said: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > For a fast but supposed secure FW, can't you use 'ShieldUP' from the site : > > http://www.grc.com/ ? It close all the ports under nux and win-sheet too > :(!

Re: All these open ports

2004-08-25 Thread Mezig
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 13:05:00 +0800, "Katipo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: In any case, I've as yet been unable to find any way of getting detection and authorization of outgoing requests with any of the Linux firewalls, or with IPtables - although I can hardly say that I've

Re: All these open ports

2004-08-25 Thread listcomm
On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 13:05:00 +0800, "Katipo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >In any case, I've as yet been unable to find any way of getting > >detection and authorization of outgoing requests with any > >of the Linux firewalls, or with IPtables - although I can hardly say > >that > >I've thoroughly

RE: All these open ports

2004-08-25 Thread Steven Jones
rsday, 26 August 2004 9:07 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: All these open ports > So what are exactly are you worried about? A program uploading > sensitive data to a random server? Well the easiest way for a program > to do that is to invoke sendmail to e-mail the information to

Re: All these open ports

2004-08-25 Thread listcomm
> So what are exactly are you worried about? A program uploading > sensitive data to a random server? Well the easiest way for a program > to do that is to invoke sendmail to e-mail the information to the > server. In which case the program never attempts to open a port, your > m-t-a does. Yo

Re: All these open ports

2004-08-22 Thread Travis Crump
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If a port is open, and associated with a program which isn't from a debian package and you don't believe you put it there yourself - its time to consider the possibility your machine has been compromised. Okay... that gives me an opening to try this again. At the risk of

Re: All these open ports

2004-08-22 Thread Katipo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If a port is open, and associated with a program which isn't from a debian package and you don't believe you put it there yourself - its time to consider the possibility your machine has been compromised. Okay... that gives me an opening to try this again. <> In an

Re: Firewall packages (was: All these open ports)

2004-08-22 Thread listcomm
> You could get something close to Zone Alarm (minus the application > permissions stuff) with a very short iptables script which set the > policies for INPUT and FORWARD to DROP, and OUTPUT to ACCEPT, and adding > a couple of rules for allowing related and established connections on > the INPUT c

Re: All these open ports

2004-08-22 Thread listcomm
> If a port is open, and associated with a program which isn't from a > debian package and you don't believe you put it there yourself - its > time to consider the possibility your machine has been compromised. Okay... that gives me an opening to try this again. At the risk of provoking the usu

Re: All these open ports

2004-08-19 Thread Dana J. Laude
x27;t need. This should do (at least) discard, echo, daytime. Then, determine which programs are responsible for the remaining open ports. Stop them from running and prevent them from starting by default if necessary. How to do this varies on an application-to-application basis; but can probably be fo

Re: All these open ports

2004-08-18 Thread Jon Dowland
don't need. This should do (at least) discard, echo, daytime. Then, determine which programs are responsible for the remaining open ports. Stop them from running and prevent them from starting by default if necessary. How to do this varies on an application-to-application basis; but can pro

Re: All these open ports

2004-08-18 Thread Mike Ward
Generally speaking, to close a port, you shut down whatever deamon is listening on it. For example, if you had port 80 open, and want to close it, shut down your web server (apache or whatever else). Same with ssh - to close that port, shut down sshd. On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:56:17 -0400, Tong <[EM

Re: Firewall packages (was: All these open ports)

2004-08-18 Thread Paul Gear
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ... > Thus far, I haven't been able to find anything that provides > canned-up functionality of the nature of the Windows "Zone Alarm", > although I can probably overcome that by iptables scripting, > whereas with the Windows firewalls you get whatever is there > and have

Re: Firewall packages (was: All these open ports)

2004-08-17 Thread listcomm
>> There are other available packages: >> I use FireHOL > >I used to use iptables + wondershaper in RH. I notice there are many >ready-made firewall packages available in Debian. I'm wondering which one >is recommended (ease to use/updated frequently, etc)? So am I, but I don't think this is the

Firewar packages (was: All these open ports)

2004-08-14 Thread Tong
On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 11:07:58 +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: >>>Buy a firewall or set up iptables. >> >> You can just load the Firestarter package; it will allow you to block >> ports (via a generated iptables script). > > There are other available packages: > I use FireHOL I used to use iptables +

Re: All these open ports

2004-08-14 Thread Tong
On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 23:55:46 -0600, s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >> >> >I've just noticed that my debian testing open many ports by default: >> > >> >tcp0 0 *:dict *:* LISTEN >> >> I'm curious which utility produced th

Re: All these open ports

2004-08-14 Thread Jerome BENOIT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just noticed that my debian testing open many ports by default: tcp0 0 *:dict *:* LISTEN tcp0 0 *:time *:* LISTEN tcp0 0 *:discard *:

Re: All these open ports

2004-08-14 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Tong (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I've just noticed that my debian testing open many ports by default: Some of them are opened by inetd. You can use "dpkg-reconfigure inetd", or edit /etc/inetd.conf and comment out the protocols you don't need. After that, restart inetd. > tcp0

Re: All these open ports

2004-08-13 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > >I've just noticed that my debian testing open many ports by default: > > > >tcp0 0 *:dict *:* LISTEN > > I'm curious which utility produced that listing; I haven't seen "lsof" > produce that - ? That woul

Re: All these open ports

2004-08-13 Thread listcomm
>I've just noticed that my debian testing open many ports by default: > >tcp0 0 *:dict *:* LISTEN >tcp0 0 *:time *:* LISTEN >tcp0 0 *:discard *:*

Re: All these open ports

2004-08-13 Thread Stefan O'Rear
On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 09:56:17PM -0400, Tong wrote: > Hi, > > I've just noticed that my debian testing open many ports by default: Uninstall the respective services. Or, use a firewalling system (dedicated firewall, iptables, etc...) To find out what service uses what port: stefan:~$ sudo l

All these open ports

2004-08-13 Thread Tong
Hi, I've just noticed that my debian testing open many ports by default: tcp0 0 *:dict *:* LISTEN tcp0 0 *:time *:* LISTEN tcp0 0 *:discard *:*

testing open ports on the user's side

2004-05-28 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
Hi everyone, I'm working on a web site that includes streamed rich media files. I need a way to test to see which ports the user can access if they're behind a firewall. I'm guess that I need to try and send them an object (a picture maybe?) on one of the ports I need information about and then se

Re: testing open ports on the user's side

2004-05-28 Thread Joost De Cock
On Friday 28 May 2004 16:25, Emma Jane Hogbin hurled the following on the wire: > On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 07:08:24AM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > > grab the plug-info from the users browser ( if its setup to tell you ) > > > > use nmap or any port scanner to see if you can scan that port you > > want

Re: testing open ports on the user's side

2004-05-28 Thread Alvin Oga
On Fri, 28 May 2004, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > > any secure site will only allow port 80 or port 443 for web ... > > It's not the server I'm testing, it's the user. Some streaming video that "secure site" works both ways ... user or server .. > (RealPlayer) doesn't come through on regular port

Re: testing open ports on the user's side

2004-05-28 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 07:08:24AM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > grab the plug-info from the users browser ( if its setup to tell you ) > > use nmap or any port scanner to see if you can scan that port you > want on their machine This is the one I need to know about. Sorry to be so dense, but if I g

Re: testing open ports on the user's side

2004-05-28 Thread Jacob S.
On Fri, 28 May 2004 09:59:20 -0400 Emma Jane Hogbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 10:32:20PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > I'm working on a web site that includes streamed rich media files. > > > I need a way to test to see which ports the user can access if > > > they're be

Re: testing open ports on the user's side

2004-05-28 Thread Joost De Cock
On Friday 28 May 2004 15:59, Emma Jane Hogbin hurled the following on the wire: > On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 10:32:20PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > I'm working on a web site that includes streamed rich media files. I > > > need a way to test to see which ports the user can access if they're > > > b

Re: testing open ports on the user's side

2004-05-28 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 10:32:20PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > > I'm working on a web site that includes streamed rich media files. I need > > a way to test to see which ports the user can access if they're behind a > > firewall. I'm guess that I need to try and send them an object (a picture > > may

Re: testing open ports on the user's side

2004-05-27 Thread Alvin Oga
n also come into their secure box thru those open ports - imho, people should download what they want ... not be sent stuff they dont want .. no clickie, no object to come down the pike - you know the pic was received ... by looking at your logs and see that xxx bytes of that file was s

Re: open ports question

2002-06-06 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Wednesday, June 5, Paul Johnson did write: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 02:32:00PM -0400, tvn1981 wrote: > > > 9/tcp opendiscard > > Not sure myself... Standard TCP service; routes everything written to that

Re: open ports question

2002-06-05 Thread Mark Roach
On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 13:32, tvn1981 wrote: > > Hi, I have the following ports open and I am not sure what they are. > Whether or not they are really needed. My other Linux box (rh) doesn't > have these so I am wondering what these are in Debian > > 9/tcp opendiscard

Re: open ports question

2002-06-05 Thread ben
On Wednesday 05 June 2002 02:57 pm, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 02:32:00PM -0400, tvn1981 wrote: > > 9/tcp opendiscard > > Not sure myself... > $ cat //etc/services| grep 9/tcp discard 9/tcp sink n

Re: open ports question

2002-06-05 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 02:32:00PM -0400, tvn1981 wrote: > 9/tcp opendiscard Not sure myself... > 13/tcp opendaytime > 37/tcp opentime

Re: open ports question

2002-06-05 Thread Mike Dresser
On 5 Jun 2002, tvn1981 wrote: > > Hi, I have the following ports open and I am not sure what they are. > Whether or not they are really needed. My other Linux box (rh) doesn't > have these so I am wondering what these are in Debian > > 9/tcp opendiscard > 13/tcp opendaytim

open ports question

2002-06-05 Thread tvn1981
Hi, I have the following ports open and I am not sure what they are. Whether or not they are really needed. My other Linux box (rh) doesn't have these so I am wondering what these are in Debian 9/tcp opendiscard 13/tcp opendaytime

Re: open ports with iptables

2001-06-22 Thread Vineet Kumar
Under the netfilter model, this is known as DNAT (Destination NAT, because it is the destination field of incoming packets that is being rewritten). you'll want something like the following: iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -d $extip -p tcp --dport 135 -j DNAT --to-destination 192.168.1.1 (also se

RE: open ports with iptables

2001-06-22 Thread Sebastiaan
> > > doing a search for -dport or -sport for source and destination ports > > > > > thank you for your reply, but I am not getting much wiser with this > > document. I learn by examples. I was thinking about this: > > iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -d 212.127.10.10 -dport 135 -j ACCEPT > > iptables -A

Re: closeing open ports

2001-04-29 Thread Brandon High
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 04:20:14PM -0300, Rogerio Bastos wrote: > > Another usefull thing to do when the port you want to close is not listed on > /etc/services and you don't have a clue of what service is binded to that > port is to run (as root) fuser -a -n proto port, where proto may be tcp,

Re: closeing open ports

2001-04-29 Thread Rogerio Bastos
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 29 April 2001 05:13, Michael Earls wrote: > What file do i need to edit to close open ports, > > ex, port 111 /tcp sunrpc > 515/ tcp printer > 2000/ tcp callback > Another usefull thing to do when

Re: closeing open ports

2001-04-29 Thread ktb
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 11:38:25AM -0700, Michael Earls wrote: > that was great info, but i do not need to masq any ips, i just need to > limit the ports being open, i have edited inetd.conf, but there were some > ports not listed in there. here is a port scan on my box, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] m

Re: closeing open ports

2001-04-29 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001, Michael Earls wrote: > that was great info, but i do not need to masq any ips, i just need to > limit the ports being open, i have edited inetd.conf, but there were some > ports not listed in there. here is a port scan on my box, > Mike, Hi. I just joined thread so I can

RE: closeing open ports

2001-04-29 Thread Michael Earls
Aoki Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2001 2:05 AM To: Michael Earls Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: closeing open ports On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 01:38:33AM -0700, Michael Earls wrote: > What is a good starting point / reference point on ipchains. I have it > installedx but not confi

Re: closeing open ports

2001-04-29 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 01:38:33AM -0700, Michael Earls wrote: > What is a good starting point / reference point on ipchains. I have it > installedx but not config. Is there a file that i can edit for ipchains? > > I only need 21 ftp 22 ssh 25 smtp 80 http You may want to open auth too. Closing

RE: closeing open ports

2001-04-29 Thread Michael Earls
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2001 10:21 PM To: Michael Earls Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: closeing open ports On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 01:13:07AM -0700, Michael Earls wrote: > What file do i need to edit to close open ports, > > ex, port 111 /t

Re: closeing open ports

2001-04-29 Thread ktb
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 01:13:07AM -0700, Michael Earls wrote: > What file do i need to edit to close open ports, > > ex, port 111 /tcp sunrpc > 515/ tcp printer > 2000/ tcp callback > Also comment out everything you don't need in - /etc/inet

Re: closeing open ports

2001-04-29 Thread ktb
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 01:13:07AM -0700, Michael Earls wrote: > What file do i need to edit to close open ports, > > ex, port 111 /tcp sunrpc > 515/ tcp printer > 2000/ tcp callback Run the command - # lsof | grep LISTEN This is another option - $ les

Re: closeing open ports

2001-04-29 Thread Brandon High
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 01:13:07AM -0700, Michael Earls wrote: > What file do i need to edit to close open ports, > > ex, port 111 /tcp sunrpc > 515/ tcp printer > 2000/ tcp callback Install and configure ipchains. There are various firewall packag

closeing open ports

2001-04-29 Thread Michael Earls
What file do i need to edit to close open ports,   ex, port 111 /tcp sunrpc     515/ tcp printer     2000/ tcp callback     Thanks for your time   michael

Re: open ports remaining

2001-02-18 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 10:46:40PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > the best way ive found to disable portmap is to rename /sbin/portmap > to something else. there are so many different things that may call > on it, its just easier for me to rename it then modify a bunch of just make sure you

Re: open ports remaining

2001-02-18 Thread aphro
On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 11:13:52PM -0500, Glenn Becker wrote: > Interesting ports on localhost (127.0.0.1): > PortState Protocol Service > 22 opentcpssh > 25 opentcpsmtp > 53 opentcpdomain >

Re: open ports remaining

2001-02-17 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Glenn Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # # All, # # I have been trying to secure my Debian box, which enjoys a DSL # connection. I've been going through /etc/inetd.conf, commenting out # services, and K'ing others in the /etc/rc2.d/, until what I have left is # the following (output from nmap

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