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Date:      Fri, 15 Oct 2004 10:24:23 +0200
From:      Richard Verwayen <holle@ackw.de>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Automatic Firewall software?
Message-ID:  <1097828663.9165.23.camel@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <20041014210906.761aa524@vixen42.24-119-122-191.cpe.cableone.net>
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On Fri, 2004-10-15 at 04:09, Vulpes Velox wrote:

> > 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?
> 
> Move it and the like to a non-common port if one can. :)

Security by obscurity???
========================

NO! 

There is a tiny little configuration file to change portsentries
behaviour! So tell portsentry not to listen on used ports!

Richard



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