From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 17 0:53:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rhenium.btinternet.com (rhenium.btinternet.com [194.73.73.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05FBD37BC4E for ; Wed, 17 May 2000 00:53:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org) Received: from [62.6.101.160] (helo=parish.my.domain) by protactinium with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #1) id 12rnBe-0004pP-00 for questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 16 May 2000 20:39:26 +0100 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA01525 for questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 16 May 2000 20:38:50 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 20:38:49 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Is port scanning a problem? Message-ID: <20000516203849.A1491@parish> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG My ISP's support newsgroup has lots of threads about "port scanning". Most of the people there are Windozers and since I've never heard any mention of it here I assume that it is a Windows vulnerability and not an issue if I connect only from FreeBSD. Is this correct? I checked out Steve Gibson's site (http://wrc.com) which has a test program to check the vulnerability of your machine. The only thing that showed up in my logs when I ran this was in /var/log/messages: May 16 20:23:18 parish inetd[96]: /usr/libexec/fingerd[1438]: exit status 0x100 Any need to worry? -- ...and on the eighth day God created UNIX ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message