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From: Antony Stone <Antony@Soft-Solutions.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Preventing port scanning
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 20:09:18 +0100
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On Wednesday 07 April 2004 7:57 pm, Rob Sterenborg wrote:

> > Is it possible to prevent people from port scanning my
> > firewall to see whats open?
>
> You mean : "iptables -P INPUT DROP" ?

I'd recommend "iptables -F INPUT" with that choice, sir :)

Antony.

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