28 Apr
2016
28 Apr
'16
9:28 a.m.
On 28 Apr 2016, at 19:18, Toralf Förster toralf.foerster@gmx.de wrote:
Signed PGP part On 04/28/2016 11:14 AM, Tim Wilson-Brown - teor wrote:
Ports in, or ports out?
Ports in I meant, sry.
Closing inbound ports is a security precaution
The question is - if there's no program listening on that port, does filtering that in-port has any effect ?
Normally, when there is a connection attempt to a closed port, your OS will reply and let the other end know the port is closed. With iptables, you can blackhole (drop) these requests instead. Or you can log them.
Tim
Tim Wilson-Brown (teor)
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