From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Aug 7 11:37:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from web14701.mail.yahoo.com (web14701.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.224.118]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3566F37B40A for ; Tue, 7 Aug 2001 11:37:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vassd2000@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20010807183731.46148.qmail@web14701.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [212.251.12.114] by web14701.mail.yahoo.com; Tue, 07 Aug 2001 11:37:31 PDT Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 11:37:31 -0700 (PDT) From: vass D Subject: Re: open ports To: joe.lawrence@business-aid.net, freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <3B7028D0.85D401D5@business-aid.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org i'm too new to answer that in detail, but there are different ways of doing it... one is to enable the firewall and allow only the ports (and even ip addresses) u like open for others to connect. another way is to remap the ports so if people scan u, they usualy scan for well known services-ports, they get nothing on the standard ports, but your services listen to a remaped port (its number is chosen by you). i think there is also spesific apps that block (or monitor) only certain ports...not sure though. dont know if they are popular in unix world. they're used a lot in ms-win for blocking netbios etc. probably your best bet is to enable the firewall. --- Thorel wrote: > Hi how are you all? > Ok i have a question how do i turn on and of ports > on my freebsd computer? > > Thanxs > > Joe Lawrence > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of > the message __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message