From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Feb 8 5:47:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from bsd.sixpak.net (adsl-151-204-22-8.adsl.bellatlantic.net [151.204.22.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EAC637B401 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 05:47:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from mike (mike.sixpak.net [192.168.10.2]) by bsd.sixpak.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f18DlWF03979 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 08:47:32 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sixpak.net) Message-ID: <003701c091d5$dadc34e0$020aa8c0@sixpak.net> From: "Mike" To: Subject: Security Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 08:48:44 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org My box has been scanned very aggressivly this past week. I've got some concerns over the security of my box especially since I've had to open up the incoming UDP on all ports > 1024 and now have also enabled IDENT in order to use IRC. Is it even safe to run ident? Do I have other options or must I give up IRC? Why did I have to open up UDP for web browsing to work? How do I close the SunRPC port? Getting Paranoid - You ARE being watched :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message