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Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 13:30:49 +0200
From: Manuel Enrique Garcia Cuesta <megarcia@intercom.es>
To: Wolfgang Drews <drews@dynamic-webpages.de>
Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: closing ports
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	Wolfgang,

	Check http://www.es.freebsd.org/security/ and look for
Tips and Tricks there particularly.


=== Wolfgang Drews escribía
(Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 01:22:14PM +0200):

> Hi FreeBSD-Team,
> 
> I have a little problem with closing ports on my FreeBSD-Server.
> I read the security-chapter in your handbook, and fount out, that
> ports, that are not used, should be closed. Well, i did a portscan
> on the machine and nearly got nervous, seeing how many ports are
> open, but really not used (as there are telnet, mysql, nnpt and so
> on ...). Now i tought, "well, search the services-file in /etc/ and
> try to close them in it", but that seems to be the wrong way. Can
> you maybe help me, and tell me, how to close all those ports i do
> not need? (A link to a documentation about it would maybe be enough).
> 
> ok, the system is FreeBSD 4.1 (VKERN)-Release.  
> 
> would be great to hear from you ;-)
> 
> with best regards,
> 
> -Wolfgang
> 
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