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Re: [SLE] SuSEfirewall2 & port 113 (IDENT)
- From: Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 05 Feb 2003 16:46:03 +0100
- Message-id: <1044459963.8382.1.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 16:23, Kevin Wilson wrote:
> 1)
> SuSEfirewall2 does not stealth port 113 but rather shows the port as closed.
> Is there a simple remedy for this or must we accept it as is?
Trust me, you don't want a DROP rule for port 113. It would slow things
down greatly. some things would even break completely, with certain mail
servers for instance. You're not invisible on the net even with
everything "stealthed" anyway so it really doesn't matter
Anders
> 1)
> SuSEfirewall2 does not stealth port 113 but rather shows the port as closed.
> Is there a simple remedy for this or must we accept it as is?
Trust me, you don't want a DROP rule for port 113. It would slow things
down greatly. some things would even break completely, with certain mail
servers for instance. You're not invisible on the net even with
everything "stealthed" anyway so it really doesn't matter
Anders
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