[ale] Open port!

Robert Hoffman rob at frankenlinux.com
Wed Oct 11 13:50:48 EDT 2000


You can display the listening ports with netstat -l

-Rob

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Ken Nagorski <kenn at pcintelligent.com>
To: ale at ale.org
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 14:01:09 -0400 (EDT)

>	Well you could port scan your o0wn machine with something like sniffit and
>find out what the open ports are, if you don't need them go ahead and
>disable them.
>
>	There is no best security really, only good. But using something
>like portsentry is great cause of someone else port scans you it will drop
>the route. This is a great first line of defense. Hope that helps...
>
>
>Ken 
>
>On Wed, 11 Oct 2000 reji at sbc.edu.ph wrote:
>
>> 
>> 	How will I know that there is an open port in my Linux machine?
>> What is the best security that I can install to my linux machince?
>> 
>> 	Thank you in advanced!
>> 
>> Reji
>> 
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