Subject: port 113
From: Greg Madden (pabi@gci.net)
Date: Fri Jan 30 2004 - 10:05:50 AKST
I got a new firewall, replaced my Icop box with a Netgear Fvs318. What
this did was break my Debian mirror updates that were runing on a cron
job. the update starts, runs for about an hour then looses the
connection to the remote mirror.
Doing some investigating I find that the Netgear box stealths all ports
by default. In contrast the Ipcop box stealths 1-112, leaves port 113
(Ident) as closed, stealths 114-1024 , leaves all the higher ports in a
closed state. Not having any admin knowledge I am wondering if
stealthing port 113 is not a good poicy, at least for the mirror I am
trying to connect to.
-- Greg Madden Precision Air Balance, Inc. Phone: 907-276-0461--------- To unsubscribe, send email to <aklug-request@aklug.org> with 'unsubscribe' in the message body.
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