On 3/16/2010 2:12 PM, Ben Kevan wrote:

On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:43:04 -0700, Carlos E. R. wrote:

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On 2010-03-16 21:27, William wrote:

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I did a port scan and it said it is getting a Ping Reply . I would like to know how to turn off Ping Reply ?

Firewall configuration.

You took my answer.. so I'll say..

iptables

:o)

Or don't worry about it. This sounds like someone went to GRC.com and got all exited about what that fool Gibson told them and believes shutting off pings provides any measure of security. -- _____________________________________ At one time I had a Real Sig. Its been downsized. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 2010-03-17 10:08, Gudmund Areskoug wrote:

John Andersen skrev:

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Or don't worry about it.

This sounds like someone went to GRC.com and got all exited about what that fool Gibson told them and believes shutting off pings provides any measure of security.

So where should they go, and who should they believe?

There is not much danger having ping work, and it help solv some problems. Try pinging download.opensuse.org or suse.de, it works, - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 11.2 x86_64 "Emerald" GM (Minas Tirith)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iF4EAREIAAYFAkug8VcACgkQja8UbcUWM1wUBQD9Fb4gwMBvTkjCopU9/W4dLAPM oaVDvFkuBTRCJdNp/5kA/3KmYGUZt0Z0RTwfDwSQrjo5UhJgoZN1NGj7lA0xS+/I =kweJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org