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From: Rob Sterenborg <rob@sterenborg.info>
To: Netfilter <netfilter@lists.netfilter.org>
Subject: Re: Preventing port scanning
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2004 21:42:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1081366957.8571.6.camel@katala.sterenborg.info> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200404072009.18163.Antony@Soft-Solutions.co.uk>

On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 21:09, Antony Stone wrote:
> 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 :)

Of course, where was my mind when I wrote this...
<grin>It's quite effective, however.</grin>


Gr,
Rob




      reply	other threads:[~2004-04-07 19:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-07 18:14 Preventing port scanning Stuart Lamble
2004-04-07 18:57 ` Antony Stone
2004-04-07 19:28   ` Stephen Frost
2004-04-07 18:57 ` Rob Sterenborg
2004-04-07 19:09   ` Antony Stone
2004-04-07 19:42     ` Rob Sterenborg [this message]

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