Re: [Sheflug] How To: The Final Chapter

[Alec Melling <alec [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 05 August 2005 02:46, lesleyb wrote:
> Alec Melling wrote:
> > Hi,
> 
> > Lesley what is this about port 746. I must admit I have been relying on
> > the firewall in my netgear router for security as I get this installation
> > up and running.  So perhaps the next how to should be:
>
> When I set up a system I like to port scan it.  What a port scan does is
> scan ports to see which are open, closed or stealthed.  A mail server
> might have port 25 open an ftp server would have port 21 and a web
> server would have port 80 open.  On a normal domestic machine, it's not
> neccessary to have ports on your machine open to others and you can open
> ports as you need to to retrieve mail, do ftp or web surfing or
> whatever.  You can simply close them or stealth them; one means your
> machine responds with a 'no not here' message and the other means you
> simply don't reply at all.  Your choice as to which is better.
>
> port 746 on the warty release of Ubuntu was left open after the
> installation procedure.

>
> Lesley

Thanks for the advice. I have run the GRC scan and am running in stealth mode 
(very un-me). I will also look further into this matter and learn how to 
'tighten-ship'
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Alec Melling
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