Subject: Re: Security Issues...
From: Brent Cantrell (slycer9@mac.com)
Date: Mon Aug 13 2001 - 21:26:22 MDT
Depending on how you setup IPChains, you can minimize any returns from port
scans and such, making your machine effectively 'dissapear' from the net.
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>From: Darron Froese <darron@froese.org>
>To: <yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com>
>Subject: Re: Security Issues...
>Date: Mon, Aug 13, 2001, 10:21 PM
>
> On 8/13/01 8:55 PM, "Brian Watson" <bcwatso1@uiuc.edu> wrote:
>
>> I've noticed several people attempting to access my website, and not
>> by ordinary means. I've been examining my logs, and many, many
>> people are port sniffing me. How can I stop port sniffers? A friend
>> mentioned something about a robots.txt file, but I don't know if this
>> applies to YDL or not. Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Brian,
>
> The only way you can stop people from 'port scanning' you is by unplugging
> your computer from the internet.
>
> A robots.txt file will not stop port scanners, but they *may* stop well
> behaved web robots from indexing your websites - those are two very separate
> things.
>
> What are you actually seeing in your web logs? If you posted them, I'm
> fairly sure we may be able to see what's going on.
> --
> Darron
> darron@froese.org
>
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