Hi Brenden, > I was adding some logging to my IPTables configuration, and thought I'd ask > this question. I noticed that if I DROP UDP packets the scan.sygatetech.com > UDP scanner reports the ports as open, if I reject it reports them as closed.
This probably has to do with the fact that UDP is a connectionless protocol, ie no answer is expected to acknowledge a sent packet. Thus the scanner can not distinguish between an accepted package and one that has been dropped. Only a rejected package sents an response back to the scanner. Bye, Leonard. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list