Re: Portsentry and iptables

[Jack Bowling <jbinpg home com>]

** Reply to message from Bill Johnson <wejohnson usa net> on Mon, 1 Oct 2001 08:10:20 -0400 (EDT)

> 
> Of course, another question is, what are these pokes at port 111?  I have
> iptables running (via the firestarter package which sets up a firewall for
> you via a simple gui frontend).  Are these messages saying that something
> is getting through that firewall where portsentry is having to deal with
> it?

Bill - If you are seeing it on Firestarter's hit list monitor then it is being blocked since Firestarter logs and drops packets by default. If anything gets through, you won't see it.

Jack Bowling
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