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Re: Query: Filtered Ports I do not use. Should i be worried?
From: Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers <bugtraq () planetcobalt net>
Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 20:20:42 +0200
On 2007-05-10 Petter Bruland wrote:
Filtered just means that your firewall / router is responding to the port scan saying that there's no such service here.
No.
The better way (In my opinion) is to block these ports so that the person scanning does not get a reply at all.
"filtered" means exactly that: the connection attempt is dropped without a reply. Otherwise the port would be reported as either "open" or "closed".
Might keep someone from trying different ways to get through, as they know something is there.
No. Regards Ansgar Wiechers -- "All vulnerabilities deserve a public fear period prior to patches becoming available." --Jason Coombs on Bugtraq
Current thread:
- Query: Filtered Ports I do not use. Should i be worried? william fitzgerald (May 10)
- RE: Query: Filtered Ports I do not use. Should i be worried? Petter Bruland (May 10)
- Re: Query: Filtered Ports I do not use. Should i be worried? Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers (May 10)
- Re: Query: Filtered Ports I do not use. Should i be worried? william fitzgerald (May 11)
- Re: Query: Filtered Ports I do not use. Should i be worried? Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers (May 10)
- RE: Query: Filtered Ports I do not use. Should i be worried? Petter Bruland (May 10)