Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 21:36:42 -0600 From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Controlling ports used by natd Message-ID: <20031213033642.GA76231@madman.celabo.org> In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.2.20031212161250.045e9408@localhost> References: <200312120312.UAA10720@lariat.org> <20031212074519.GA23452@pit.databus.com> <6.0.0.22.2.20031212011133.047ae798@localhost> <20031212083522.GA24267@pit.databus.com> <6.0.0.22.2.20031212103142.04611738@localhost> <20031212181944.GA33245@pit.databus.com> <6.0.0.22.2.20031212161250.045e9408@localhost>
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On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 04:20:04PM -0700, Brett Glass wrote: > It'd be nice to restrict which ports the OS > allowed apps to use, not only so that they don't get blocked by a firewall > but so that a worm that's gotten into the system is detected. (You could set > off an alarm if it tried to bind a "forbidden" port.) Er, that's the purpose of PortSentry, I believe, which I mentioned earlier :-) -- Jacques Vidrine NTT/Verio SME FreeBSD UNIX Heimdal nectar@celabo.org jvidrine@verio.net nectar@freebsd.org nectar@kth.se
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