On 23/04/10 17:52, Colin Law wrote: > On 23 April 2010 17:24, John Matthews<jake...@sky.com> wrote: > >> 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. >> > Note that the ping was not getting through to your PC, it was the > router that was responding to the ping. > > Colin > >
Hi Colin, thank you for pointing that out. I keep forgetting I have a router, and things work differently with it. If I can connect to the internet, I dont think about it, it is only when it breaks, I remember. John. -- Ubuntu User #30817 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
