Re: [gentoo-user] Testing how secure a server is...

port scanner like nmap should be a basic check of your firewall. I would also set nmap (if it can do this) to perform a SYN flood as it scans, to see if your server can withstand that basic DoS attack. (Adding --syn to your TCP rules in iptables can prevent SYN flooding when used with SYN

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing how secure a server is...

it, and blocked all ports except 443 and 8080, where the SSH is listening. Apache has PHP installed as a module. Want to know how secure your server is? Try and hack it! A good port scanner like nmap should be a basic check of your firewall. I would also set nmap (if it can do this) to perform a SYN

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing how secure a server is...

vulnerable. so my advice would be to use more secure and easily secured alternatives whenever possible. A good port scanner like nmap should be a basic check of your firewall. I would also set nmap (if it can do this) to perform a SYN flood as it scans, to see if your server can withstand

[gentoo-user] unclear (to me) errors from portage

/nmap-6.25 USE=gtk ipv6 lua nls ssl -ncat -ndiff -nmap-update -nping LINGUAS=-de -es -fr -hr -hu -id -it -ja -pl -pt_BR -pt_PT -ro -ru -sk -zh [ebuild R]net-libs/libpcap-1.5.3 USE=dbus ipv6 -bluetooth* -canusb -netlink -static-libs 628 kB [ebuild NS] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources

Re: [gentoo-user] unclear (to me) errors from portage

-3.12.0:3.0 USE=games shotwell tracker [nomerge ] net-analyzer/gnome-nettool-3.8.1 USE=-debug [nomerge ] net-analyzer/nmap-6.25 USE=gtk ipv6 lua nls ssl -ncat -ndiff -nmap-update -nping LINGUAS=-de -es -fr -hr -hu -id -it -ja -pl -pt_BR -pt_PT -ro -ru -sk -zh [ebuild R] net-libs

[gentoo-user] More troubles with major update

/Compress-Raw-Zlib-2.030 Tue Oct 26 22:33:56 2010 perl-core/File-Spec-3.33 Tue Oct 26 22:34:30 2010 dev-perl/XML-Parser-2.40 Tue Oct 26 22:35:11 2010 dev-perl/NetAddr-IP-4.033 Tue Oct 26 22:35:35 2010 dev-perl/Test-LongString-0.14 Tue Oct 26 22:36:50 2010 dev-lang/nasm-2.09.02 Tue Oct 26 22:37:15 2010

[gentoo-user] Re: update brings no recognition of tty hence no login

-r2 Sat Jan 3 21:55:32 2009 dev-perl/XML-Parser-2.36 Sat Jan 3 21:56:02 2009 perl-core/Test-Harness-3.14 Sat Jan 3 21:56:30 2009 dev-perl/URI-1.37 Sat Jan 3 21:57:38 2009 dev-lang/nasm-2.05.01 Sat Jan 3 21:58:09 2009 dev-util/intltool-0.40.5 Sat Jan 3 22:00:16 2009 sys-devel/m4-1.4.12 Sat

[gentoo-user] KDE update revdep-rebuild.sh fail

tk2-Ex-Simple-List:0 dev-perl/HTML-Parser:0 dev-perl/HTML-Tagset:0 dev-perl/HTML-TokeParser-Simple:0 dev-perl/HTTP-Cookies:0 dev-perl/HTTP-Daemon:0 dev-perl/HTTP-Date:0 dev-perl/HTTP-Message:0 dev-perl/HTTP-Negotiate:0 dev-perl/IO-HTML:0 dev-perl/IO-Socket-INET6:0 dev-perl/IO-Socket-SSL:0 dev-perl/IO-str