Re: re: how to close port 113

2008-08-04 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Jude DaShiell wrote: > Install and run arno-iptables-firewall and tell it your > internet port like eth0 or ppp0 and leave the rest of the > defaults alone. Port 113 will be closed once this is done > since one of the defaults with arno-iptables-firewall is to > first deny all

Re: [Solved] Re: how to close port 113 ident xinetd

2008-08-04 Thread Jimmy Wu
On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Gregory Seidman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > xinetd uses separate configuration files for each of the services it > provides (assuming your /etc/xinetd.conf has the line "includedir > /etc/xinetd.d" per the Debian default). Part of the pidentd package is an >

re: how to close port 113

2008-08-03 Thread Jude DaShiell
Install and run arno-iptables-firewall and tell it your internet port like eth0 or ppp0 and leave the rest of the defaults alone. Port 113 will be closed once this is done since one of the defaults with arno-iptables-firewall is to first deny all portsthen only open up those you specifically

Re: [Solved] Re: how to close port 113 ident xinetd

2008-08-03 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 09:03:10PM -0400, Jimmy Wu wrote: > On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 6:43 PM, Ansgar Burchardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > "Jimmy Wu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> I tried doing an nmap scan on myse

[Solved] Re: how to close port 113 ident xinetd

2008-08-02 Thread Jimmy Wu
On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 6:43 PM, Ansgar Burchardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > "Jimmy Wu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I tried doing an nmap scan on myself the other day and found that tcp >> port 113 was open. Nmap listed the service as

Re: how to close port 113 ident xinetd

2008-08-02 Thread Richard Hector
On Sat, 2008-08-02 at 18:17 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 08/02/08 17:43, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > > Hi, > > > > "Jimmy Wu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> I tried doing an nmap scan on myself the other day and found that tcp > >

Re: how to close port 113 ident xinetd

2008-08-02 Thread Ron Johnson
On 08/02/08 17:43, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: Hi, "Jimmy Wu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I tried doing an nmap scan on myself the other day and found that tcp port 113 was open. Nmap listed the service as ident. I am trying to remove this service since I don't think I

Re: how to close port 113 ident xinetd

2008-08-02 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, "Jimmy Wu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I tried doing an nmap scan on myself the other day and found that tcp > port 113 was open. Nmap listed the service as ident. I am trying to > remove this service since I don't think I need it, but I can't figur

how to close port 113 ident xinetd

2008-08-02 Thread Jimmy Wu
Hi, I tried doing an nmap scan on myself the other day and found that tcp port 113 was open. Nmap listed the service as ident. I am trying to remove this service since I don't think I need it, but I can't figure out how. I removed the package pidentd, after which nmap reported th

Re: A way of setting up a computer for routing *just* port 113?

2004-03-28 Thread Alexis Huxley
> Would it be possible to setup, say, my desktop machine, or any other > Debian machine, to be a router for *just* port 113? So I could forward > port 113 on the WAN to that machine, and then that machine could > automatically share port 113 with any machine on the home LAN? T

Re: A way of setting up a computer for routing *just* port 113?

2004-03-27 Thread Jeff Noxon
It sounds like you just need to install one of the fake identd packages, like nullidentd, and make your router forward port 113 requests to that. nullidentd will always answer "foobar" to any request. I run it on my router (a Debian machine) to fool silly IRC servers which requir

A way of setting up a computer for routing *just* port 113?

2004-03-27 Thread Joseph Jones
My router, which is not a computer, but rather an unbranded little plastic box, will only allow ports to be "forwarded" to one IP on the LAN's Class C subnet. This causes a problem when trying to use ident, which uses port 113, as it means that only one computer in the house

Re: port 113

2000-10-12 Thread Pollywog
On 10-Oct-2000 Christian Pernegger wrote: > Your options: > > 1) uninstall 'pidentd' (recommended) > 2) block it, but then what's the point of having it installed? > 3) restrict it to a few trusted sites using /etc/hosts.allow > 4) replace it with something that gives out bogus information Oiden

Re: port 113

2000-10-12 Thread Michael Steiner
Thank you to all who replied. Michael

Re: port 113

2000-10-10 Thread Christian Pernegger
On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 12:51:34AM +0200, Michael Steiner wrote: > Hi to All! > > I block all traffic not realy needed by ipchains. > When fetching email from my isp I logged attempts by the isp-mailserver > with tcp to port 113. > > Can you tell me where to find information

Re: port 113

2000-10-10 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 12:51:34AM +0200, Michael Steiner wrote: > Hi to All! > > I block all traffic not realy needed by ipchains. > When fetching email from my isp I logged attempts by the isp-mailserver > with tcp to port 113. > > Can you tell me where to find information

RE: port 113

2000-10-10 Thread Pollywog
Port 113 is the identd port. I have blocked it without any problems. -- Andrew On 10-Oct-2000 Michael Steiner wrote: > Hi to All! > > I block all traffic not realy needed by ipchains. > When fetching email from my isp I logged attempts by the isp-mailserver > with tcp to port 11

port 113

2000-10-10 Thread Michael Steiner
Hi to All! I block all traffic not realy needed by ipchains. When fetching email from my isp I logged attempts by the isp-mailserver with tcp to port 113. Can you tell me where to find information about port 113 usage? (/etc/services I checked, but doesnt give me background information) Should

Re: Allow port 113? / IRC question

2000-09-23 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On 23-Sep-2000 Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: >> Should I allow packets coming into my port 113? >> > there was a big discussion about this about half a year ago. maybe you > want to look at the archives. > > i reject these packets and it works. > if some server denies

Re: Allow port 113? / IRC question

2000-09-23 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> Should I allow packets coming into my port 113? > there was a big discussion about this about half a year ago. maybe you want to look at the archives. i reject these packets and it works. if some server denies you access because of this, you may run some fake ident server - i don'

Allow port 113? / IRC question

2000-09-23 Thread Sven Burgener
Hello Should I allow packets coming into my port 113? auth113/tcp authentication tap ident When doing ftp and also irc, I get packets onto that port. So, should I allow them to enter or is it unsafe to do so? Or is the better solution to REJECT those packets explicitly? (I