Christopher Holmes wrote:
> I'm running Dachstein & haven't changed any of the ipchains rules. I
> just ran Shields Up (https://grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2) to test out the
> firewall. A few questions...
>
> snip
>
> 2) My port 53 is getting whacked hard for 10-20 seconds once or twice a
> day f
Hi Christopher
I tried the ShieldsUp Portscan.
It shows my Firewall's TCP Port 5000 as "closed" too. It seems that this is
a problem of the ShieldsUp Scan Engine/Homepage. I definitely DENY TCP Port
5000.
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Sandro Minola | LEAF Developer (http://leaf.sourceforge.net)
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>1) All tested ports show up as Stealth, ie they don't respond when a
>connection attempt is made from outside... Except Port 5000 (UPnP)
>which shows up as closed. What is UPnP? Why does this port respond?
>Not a big deal, but it does show outsiders that my address has a >machine
>behind it.
