Re: iptables configuration issue

[Ansgar Wiechers <bugtraq () planetcobalt net>]

On 2009-08-25 J.Bakshi wrote:
> I really really need your help to configure iptables to cope with
> "connection time out problem"  Here what actually the situation is.
>
> I have configured iptables to drop nmap and other port scanning
> techniques ( collected from internet, like XMAS scan, FIN scan
> etc...). If I run nmap against the   server ( like nmap -P0 <myserver>
> or nmap -P0 -sT <myserver> ) then the firewall successfully dropping
> the scan packets and  make the nmap scan  to wait for *looooong* .
> Good.  But on the other hand  the  http and mail server running on the
>  server providing "connection time out error" hence it is not possible
> to connect the mail /apache and other services running on that  server
> during port scanning against it. Could any one kindly suggest how to
> cope with this situiation ?

Start with posting your ruleset.

Regards
Ansgar Wiechers
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