On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, jennyw wrote:
> I have a default policy of deny on the input chain. I do not open up
> netbios. And yet when I run nmap to scan my computer, it shows that netbios
> ports (137/udp, 138/udp, and 139/tcp) are open. It also shows that port
> 1031/udp is open (I have no idea what this is -- nmap says it's iad2) and
> that 9/udp is also open (it says service is discard -- I'm also not sure
> what this is).
>
> When I type ipchains -L it does not show the ports as being accepted ... Can
> someone suggest why this might be happening?
>
nmap is reporting open filtered, yes, if so, then nmap has properly
identified that there is a packet filter there <ipchains>, this has come
up on this list a number of times, reading the archives might be
benificial for you.
Thanks,
Ron DuFresne
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