On 23/04/10 16:58, Markie wrote:
Hi John,
> Now that is interesting. I did all the checks, and came back telling
me I am 100% in stealth, but I still failed because they could ping me.
Some routers by default block "WAN pings" some do not. My Sky router
has a field called "respond to ping on WAN port" its checked off. I
passed the test with all my ports in stealth mode. Basically the check
at the link rob passed runs a port scan against the WAN side of your
router. This is if your are connected via a router. If you connect
directly via a USB modem or a Cable modem then it will scan your PC
directly.
> Plus, it was a bit strange because on one of the things it said 'it
was unusual to find a windows machine so completely hidden'. But I'm
not using windows, > I'm using Ubuntu. That is amazing really considering.
:-) I would say that its making an assumption that your running
windows. Lets face it us Linux users are pretty much in a minority at
least when it comes to the OS of choice on the desktop / laptop.
Thanks
Mark
Hi Mark,
thats done it. Brilliant. I looked for
"respond to ping on WAN port"
in my router settings, found it, it was ticked, I unticked, then ran
the test again, and passed everything.
That is brilliant. Thank you. Feel a bit better now.
John
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