[ale] Open port!

[jonathan at xcorps.net (Jonathan Rickman)]

On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Ken Nagorski wrote:

> 	Well you could port scan your o0wn machine with something like sniffit and
> find out what the open ports are, if you don't need them go ahead and
> disable them.
> 
> 	There is no best security really, only good. But using something
> like portsentry is great cause of someone else port scans you it will drop
> the route. This is a great first line of defense. Hope that helps...

Sniffit is a sniffer...not a portscanner. Try nmap. 

http://www.insecure.org/nmap/

or you could just type netstat -l at the command line.

-- 
Jonathan Rickman
X Corps Security
http://www.xcorps.net

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