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Re: Have we been cracked?



On Mon, Jun 21, 1999 at 11:50:51PM -0500, Brad wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Rahsheen Porter wrote:
> 
> > Portsentry will block any host that tries to scan you
> 
> Does it detect spoofed packets? For example, if someone detected you're
> using portsentry (because their scan didn't work?), could they spoof
> packets to make it look like your gateway machine was scanning you, and
> thereby make you cut yourself off from the 'net?
> 

No, cuz you can tell it hosts that it should never block. 

-- 
Rahsheen Porter 
<rahsheen@cc.gatech.edu>
<UIN: 2464469>


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