From owner-freebsd-security Sun Dec 7 16:12:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA06054 for security-outgoing; Sun, 7 Dec 1997 16:12:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security) Received: from cheops.anu.edu.au (avalon@cheops.anu.edu.au [150.203.76.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA06040 for ; Sun, 7 Dec 1997 16:12:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au) Message-Id: <199712080012.QAA06040@hub.freebsd.org> Received: by cheops.anu.edu.au (1.37.109.16/16.2) id AA194869905; Mon, 8 Dec 1997 11:11:45 +1100 From: Darren Reed Subject: Re: [linux-security] New Program: Abacus Sentry - Port Scan Detector (fwd) To: proff@iq.org (Julian Assange) Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 11:11:45 +1100 (EDT) Cc: molter@logic.it, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Julian Assange" at Dec 8, 97 03:30:42 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In some mail from Julian Assange, sie said: > > Marco Molteni writes: > > > Hi all, > > > > I though someone could be interested in this program, a port scanner > > which seems more featureful than strobe (a port scanner in the > > FreeBSD ports). > > > > This program is developed on Linux but, as the author said, should > > run on BSD variants also. > > > > Cheers > > > > Marco Molteni > > Computer Science student at the Universita' degli studi di Milano, Italy. > > "Whuffo you jump out of them airplanes?" > > > Well, it's actually a port-scan detector, so I don't think the feature > comparison via-a-vis strobe really stacks up :) There's already a port scan detector in the source tree: src/contrib/ipfilter/ipsd although it's probably not in very good shape as it was written as a "proof of concept" rather than to actually make it work. Darren