From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 7 22:22:57 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3169616A4CE for ; Thu, 7 Oct 2004 22:22:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.devrandom.org.uk (mail.devrandom.org.uk [84.92.10.242]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D646A43D2F for ; Thu, 7 Oct 2004 22:22:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from howells@kde.org) Received: from localhost (frodo [192.168.1.8]) by mail.devrandom.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB6EAAFE5 for ; Thu, 7 Oct 2004 23:18:39 +0100 (BST) Received: from mail.devrandom.org.uk ([192.168.1.8]) by localhost (frodo [192.168.1.8]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 50107-03 for ; Thu, 7 Oct 2004 23:18:13 +0100 (BST) Received: from [192.168.1.176] (unknown [192.168.1.176]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.devrandom.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64442AF1F for ; Thu, 7 Oct 2004 23:18:13 +0100 (BST) From: Chris Howells Organization: K Desktop Environment To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 23:22:34 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.1 References: <416595F3.1030601@etherealconsulting.com> <4165A1FF.5080906@mac.com> <4165AD88.6030109@etherealconsulting.com> In-Reply-To: <4165AD88.6030109@etherealconsulting.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart3048957.BUIc0gi1ze"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200410072322.42534.howells@kde.org> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at devrandom.org.uk Subject: Re: nmap'ing myself X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 22:22:57 -0000 --nextPart3048957.BUIc0gi1ze Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday 07 October 2004 21:56, Norm Vilmer wrote: > Sorry about the ambiguity, i was referring to loosening my firewall rules > and other settings to allow nmap to work properly. If it "should" work, No. Why would you want to deliberately make it easy to make a port scan wor= k? If you're a script kiddie, and randomly port scanning boxes, and one comes = up=20 with loads of wide open ports, and a few comes up with either closed or=20 "stealth" ports, which one do you think you're going to try and attack? > then I have things either misconfigured or tightened down too much. Tighten down too much? What is that? =2D-=20 Cheers, Chris Howells -- chris@chrishowells.co.uk, howells@kde.org Web: http://chrishowells.co.uk, PGP ID: 0x33795A2C KDE/Qt/C++/PHP Developer: http://www.kde.org --nextPart3048957.BUIc0gi1ze Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBBZcGyF8Iu1zN5WiwRAmZ7AKCbKspTyJa9lyp4+HMYZB7TMIhFNQCdH7De Ta0UpAvK0ZFEFDfCoc8bhG0= =bULa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3048957.BUIc0gi1ze--