From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 20 17:36:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rosencrantz.citytel.net (rosencrantz.rupert.net [204.244.98.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6749037B42C for ; Sun, 20 Aug 2000 17:36:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rosencrantz.citytel.net (kwoody@rosencrantz.rupert.net [204.244.98.45]) by rosencrantz.citytel.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id RAA26635; Sun, 20 Aug 2000 17:36:04 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 17:36:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Keith Woodworth Reply-To: kwoody@citytel.net To: "David J. Kanter" Cc: FreeBSD questions Subject: Re: Portsentry problem In-Reply-To: <20000820073403.A15099@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: Approved: yes MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, David J. Kanter wrote: >>I installed portsentry but cannot get the stealth modes to work. Perhaps >>I've configured something wrong. >> >>When I start portsentry in tcp stealth mode, this is what my syslog registers: >> >>adminalert: Psionic PortSentry 1.0 is starting. >>securityalert: Psionic PortSentry is shutting down >>adminalert: Psionic PortSentry is shutting down >> >>Can portsentry not connect to an initial socket in order to run in stealth >>mode? I've got inetd turned off, maybe that's the reason? Or, is it that my >>hosts.deny is ALL : ALL? I thought that portsentry could only run stealth mode on linux? Last time I read the docs (admittadly a long while back when I first compiled and ran it and still run the same version today) I think thats what it said. Only run -tcp mode with FBSD. Keith To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message