From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: 1stFlight <1stflight@ameritech.net> Subject: Securing my box Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 06:19:49 -0500 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <200211150619.49278.1stflight@ameritech.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux newbie I recently had a friend port scan me as a test of my ip_tables based firewall And like I wanted he discovered there were no ports open. However if I do a "netstat -a | grep LISTEN" I see tcp 0 0 localhost.localdom:1024 *:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 *:printer *:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 *:sunrpc *:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 *:x11 *:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 *:ssh *:* LISTEN What's going on here? Did I mess up my config? Thanks! Darryl - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs