portsentry

2003-01-29 Thread Phillip Smith
Quick question... What's the best way to start portsentry on reboot? Many thanks, phillip. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

portsentry question.

2005-11-30 Thread Marwan Sultan
Hello Everyone, I have up and running freebsd 4.8-R recently i installed portsentry from my updated ports, I configured portsentry.conf to add the blocked IPs to ipfw. also I added all my allowed IPs to portsentry.ignore when I ssh to the box It works fine, but when I surf the web

portsentry KILL_RUN_CMD

2002-12-17 Thread Redmond Militante
hi all i'm configuring portsentry and i wanted to set the value of the KILL_RUN_CMD option to reverse finger a scanning host. can somebody tell me what the correct syntax this would be in this file? thanks msg12345/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

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

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 ca

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 Unsubscr

portsentry - flushing hosts.deny

2003-09-29 Thread Noah
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? thanks in advance, - Noah ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

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 re

portsentry core dumps on 5.2.1

2004-10-14 Thread dave
Hello, Is anyone noticing an issue when portsentry is started on 5.2.1-p8 it atempts to bind to a tcp or udp port the first one listed in the portsentry.conf file and immediately core dumps with a signal 4? I have tried this on two machines with identical results. Suggestions welcome. Thanks

portsentry in combination with ipfilter

2003-02-11 Thread Redmond Militante
, but they're long, and suffice it to say ports i thought were closed or inactive were shown as open. after discussing it with the -security listserv, and running a 'sockstat' on the gateway box, it turns out that portsentry was indeed listening on the great majority of ports tha

Re: portsentry in combination with ipfilter

2003-02-11 Thread Scott A. Moberly
> and udp ports were open. i could copy the nmap results, but they're > long, and suffice it to say ports i thought were closed or inactive > were shown as open. > > after discussing it with the -security listserv, and running a > 'sockstat' on the gateway box, it tu

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

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 stand

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'

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'

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