Re: howto block ports
On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 09:09:50AM -0500, Harland Christofferson wrote:
> i have had a firewall configured to drop inbound packets on ports
> that i am not using via iptables.
What relevant lines can you give us from that firewall?
>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.
I could be wrong, but attackable ports are those that are being
listened to according to netstat -tulp.
> how may i do this? i have read some firewall-ing howtos but the ones
> i have read refer to iptables (or ipchains).
That seems like what you should be reading to me, after all you
did mention that you are running iptables. Also, man iptables.
>by the way, i am running
> a 2.4.18 kernel.
Make sure it's patched up to date. There have been vulnerabilities.
Patrick Lesslie
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