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From: Peter Pauly <ppauly@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Automatic Firewall software?
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Doesn't Portsentry ignore ports that have a service bound to them like
the SSH daemon? In that case, it wouldn't help Brian's problem, since
ssh is running, portsentry would ignore any attacks to port 22, right?