On Thursday 07 October 2004 21:56, Norm Vilmer wrote: > Sorry about the ambiguity, i was referring to loosening my firewall rules > and other settings to allow nmap to work properly. If it "should" work,
No. Why would you want to deliberately make it easy to make a port scan work? If you're a script kiddie, and randomly port scanning boxes, and one comes up with loads of wide open ports, and a few comes up with either closed or "stealth" ports, which one do you think you're going to try and attack? > then I have things either misconfigured or tightened down too much. Tighten down too much? What is that? -- Cheers, Chris Howells -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://chrishowells.co.uk, PGP ID: 0x33795A2C KDE/Qt/C++/PHP Developer: http://www.kde.org
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