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From: Rob Sterenborg <rob@sterenborg.info>
Subject: Re: Preventing port scanning
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2004 21:42:37 +0200
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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