howto block ports
i have had a firewall configured to drop inbound packets on ports
that i am not using via iptables. i ran a port scanning utility from
an external machine. the utility detected that, although the ports
were _closed_, the ports still responded to the port scan utility.
i suspect that data destine for these _closed_ ports is being put
in the TCP/UDP stack. i further suspect that malicious code could
take advantage of bugs in the stack if there are any. i wish to be
able to _block_ these ports entirely. i do not have the services
running in the /etc/inetd.conf file.
how may i do this? i have read some firewall-ing howtos but the ones
i have read refer to iptables (or ipchains). by the way, i am running
a 2.4.18 kernel.
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