Re: portsentry - flushing hosts.deny

2003-09-29 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 08:10:22AM -0800, Noah wrote: > > FreeBSD 4.8 - stable > > > can somebody tell me how to get portsentry to flush the hosts.deny file? or > do I just need to remove the contents manually and restart portsentry? You don't need to do that for two reasons: i) tcp_wrappers

Re: portsentry in combination with ipfilter

2003-02-12 Thread André Ramos
On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 05:55, Stephen Hilton wrote: > What bothers me about this method of defense is the possibilty > of an attacker causing a DOS by spoofing their source scan IP > and causing your system to deny traffic from a vaild host like > your upstream DNS server. You can add your DNS

Re: portsentry in combination with ipfilter

2003-02-11 Thread Redmond Militante
hi thanks again. i think i'm going to move portsentry to hosts behind the gateway - makes more sense considering the info you sent, and then look into snort/tripwire on the gateway (i actually have tripwire installed, i just haven't generated a new config db lately, since i've been messing aro

Re: portsentry in combination with ipfilter

2003-02-11 Thread Stephen Hilton
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003 23:05:09 -0600 Redmond Militante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi > i've used portsentry on standalone workstations before with ipfilter setup as a > +firewall, and for some reason, now when i'm trying to use it on a ipf/ipnat > +gateway box, it's being really verbose about the

Re: portsentry in combination with ipfilter

2003-02-11 Thread Scott A. Moberly
> hi > i've used portsentry on standalone workstations before with ipfilter > setup as a +firewall, and for some reason, now when i'm trying to use it > on a ipf/ipnat +gateway box, it's being really verbose about the ports > it's binding to. if i +nmap a standalone workstation i have configured

Re: portsentry in combination with ipfilter

2003-02-11 Thread Redmond Militante
hi i've used portsentry on standalone workstations before with ipfilter setup as a +firewall, and for some reason, now when i'm trying to use it on a ipf/ipnat +gateway box, it's being really verbose about the ports it's binding to. if i +nmap a standalone workstation i have configured ipfilter/po

Re: portsentry in combination with ipfilter

2003-02-11 Thread Scott A. Moberly
> hi all > > i have an ipf/ipnat gateway machine protecting an internal network of - > so far one, hopefully 2 or more - computers. the first thing i did > after i observed that i have my setup successfully nat'ing, was to try > to portscan myself from an outside machine, using nmap. at first i >

Re: portsentry

2003-01-29 Thread Ben Williams
Wednesday, January 29, 2003, 2:03:03 PM, you wrote: PS> Quick question... PS> What's the best way to start portsentry on reboot? PS> Many thanks, PS> phillip. I use a script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d -- Benmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EM

Re: portsentry

2003-01-29 Thread Paul Chvostek
Hi Phillip. On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 02:03:03PM -0500, Phillip Smith wrote: > > What's the best way to start portsentry on reboot? There doesn't seem to be one build by the port, so I wrote a /usr/local/etc/rc.d/portsentry.sh that looks someting like this: #!/bin/sh case "$1" in start) [

Re: portsentry

2003-01-29 Thread Stacey Roberts
Hi, On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 19:03, Phillip Smith wrote: > Quick question... > > What's the best way to start portsentry on reboot? > > Many thanks, > You can write a simple start-up script that does that for you. Here's what I have in /usr/local/etc/rc.d: #!/bin/sh PORTSENTRY="/usr/local/bin/p