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Date:      Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:11:07 +0200
From:      Leslie Jensen <leslie@eskk.nu>
To:        Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-pf@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: port stealth mode?
Message-ID:  <48AC502B.8080901@eskk.nu>
In-Reply-To: <20080820143855.GA40160@eos.sc1.parodius.com>
References:  <48AC266D.2030902@eskk.nu> <20080820143855.GA40160@eos.sc1.parodius.com>

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Jeremy Chadwick skrev:
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 04:13:01PM +0200, Leslie Jensen wrote:
>> I've done some testing with Steve Gibsons "Shields up"
>> https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2
>>
>> These tests lists the ports as closed but visible.
>>
>> Instead the site suggest that one uses stealth so that the ports are not  
>> visible from the Internet.
>>
>> Is there a way to achieve this with PF?
> 
> The "block" directive, along with "set block-policy drop" should suffice
> for accomplishing this in pf.
> 

Thank you Jeremy.

I had "return" instead of "drop".

Now when I do the test the ports 0, 1 and 53 are open.

I do not have any rules to allow these ports.

Any suggestions on what might be the reason for this?

/Leslie



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