-----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chris Hewitt Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2004 3:06 PM To: For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: Re: Open ports on FC2 On Sat, 2004-07-24 at 19:30, John Dangler wrote: > I went to the ShieldsUP!!! site and ran the file sharing and common ports > tests. According to the results, I allowed ping to reply to their server > via ICMP echo, and I have port 21 (ftp) and 23 (telnet) open. How do I: > > (1) block/ignore ICMP echo requests > (2) Tell inquirers that ports 21 and 23 exist but are closed to connections John, >Unless you need ftp and telnet, I suggest you shut them down: I don't >service vsftpd stop vsftpd isn't running (nor is any other ftp service) >Telnet is part of the xinetd super-server. Edit /etc/xinetd.d/telnet and >change the line: >disable = no >to >disable = yes I don't have a 'telnet' file in /etc/xinetd.d >You can check open ports by doing: >nmap localhost nmap localhost reveals: 22/tcp open SSH 25/tcp open smtp 111/tcp open rpcbind 631/tcp open ipp 3306/tcp open mysql 32770/tcp open sometimes-rpc3 32771/tcp open sometimes-rpc5 Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 1.433 seconds -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
