From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 5 11:43:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.webmailer.de (natmail2.webmailer.de [192.67.198.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D499337B424 for ; Tue, 5 Sep 2000 11:43:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pD4B896C5.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (pD4B896C5.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [212.184.150.197]) by post.webmailer.de (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA29092; Tue, 5 Sep 2000 20:43:35 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 20:44:38 +0200 (CEST) From: Moritz Hardt To: tomd@sacefcu.org Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: low security In-Reply-To: <39B53A92.C2EABE59@sacefcu.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG thanks On Tue, 5 Sep 2000 tomd@sacefcu.org wrote: > It has nothing to do with the ports you have open or closed. It has > everything to do with the tcp sequence predictability. ok, that would just mean that nmap is pretty sure he found the os? > > Tom > > > Moritz Hardt wrote: > > > hello, > > > > maybe i'm wrong here with this question, but when i scan my > > freebsd-computer with nmap using the -O options, which guesses the os and > > the security-level of the system, it says: > > > > ... > > Difficulty=6312 (Worthy Challenge) > > > > That seems to be _really_ low. it confuses me, because i've shutdown most > > ports, except for 23 and 25. > > > > what does that mean? what can i do? > > > > thanks in advance! > > > > - Moritz Hardt > > > > ...Keep Lynx Alive! > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message