Thanks to Skinky & Dennis, I've now used InteractiveBastille and checked www.grc.com and all ports show as closed. A stealth scan at sygate shows all ports blocked except the following so it would appear to be working (or nearly). FTP 21 CLOSED SSH 22 CLOSED SMTP 25 CLOSED DNS 53 CLOSED WEB 80 CLOSED HTTPS 443 CLOSED
On Tuesday 11 December 2001 02:12 am, you wrote: > On Tuesday 11 December 2001 04:40, poogle wrote: > | I have iptables installed, all the Bastille packages and used > | BastilleChooser rather than baffle myself with InteractiveBastille, done > | a stealth scan at http://scan.sygatetech.com which shows ports as > | "closed" rather than "stealth", I understand from previous posts that if > | Bastille is running properly that ports should show as "stealth", can > | someone tell me where I've gone wrong please ? > | -- > > IIRC the Sygatech port scans should show as "blocked" if your computer is > to be invisible to the internet. Try Shields Up at www.grc.com - that > will show your ports as being in "stealth" or "closed" mode. If that > shows as "closed" something's wrong which I can't help you with because I > use Tiny Firewall (in mcc) but hopefully someone else can help you. > > skinky -- Poogle Registered Linux user 182657 (added to sig for the benefit of those irritated by it)
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