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Re: Port Sentry



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On 2 Jun 2001, John Hasler wrote:
>
> > It is trivial to spoof the source address of a portscan, allowing one to
> > cause your machine to block access from your nameservers or your clients
> > or other important sites.
>
> While certainly no panacea, portsentry isn't that stupid.  The authors
> thought about this and provided for it.
>

agreed.  portsentry isn't perfect (what is?).  but the authors have taken
great pains to allow for certain types of breaks.  i've been using it for
a while now.  combined with logcheck and hostsentry, it's a pretty good
system.  at a minimum, at least i know what's happening on my system.

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