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From: Antony Stone <Antony@Soft-Solutions.co.uk>
Subject: Fwd: Re: Ports closed in spite of opening them?
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 16:28:38 +0100
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On Friday 02 April 2004 4:09 pm, Hurley, Michael wrote:

> Trying to write an iptables script to open ports 22, 25, 80, and 443 on a
> little testing box. The problem is, when I scan for open ports, 25 and 443
> report they are *closed*. Any idea what might be going on here?

Do you have services actually listening on those ports?   Can you connect to
them from a suitable client running on the machine you did the port scan
from?

Regards,

Antony.

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