Port Scanning

Anthony J. Gabrielson agabriel at home.tzo.org
Mon Dec 10 20:44:31 EST 2001


Have you looked at portsentry by chance?  It puts the ip's of folks who
port scan into the hosts.deny file.  It can seek revenge as well.

Anthony

On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Regrettable Error wrote:

> Thanks for reading this. Sorry if it's a dup: Netscape just crashed when I tried to send it before.
> 
> I'm curious about port-scanning, and have a question. Suppose someone is 
> trying to find a hole in my firewall, and scans a port that I'm not 
> running. Won't their scan come up "negative" for that port?
> 
> TIA.
> 
> Bill Horne
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