On 2007-10-27 Telly Williams wrote: > Maybe I'm not understanding something here. I ran a check on my ports > to see what's wrong with it. Only port 80 comes up as open, and, > apparently, is a security violation.
How did you check? nmap? From the inside? From the outside? What were the actual results? What does netstat show? > That's chaffing me, because from what I understand, without port i80 > open I'm not able to get on the WWW, so even if you ARE NOT running a > web server, it still needs to be "open". Ummm... no? A port needs to be open only if you want to accept incoming connection attemps (i.e. if you want to run a server). You don't need any port open if you just want to browse the web. [...] > Also, I'm running in stealth (not allowing icmp echo replies or > requests). *facepalm* "Stealth" is braindead marketing babble invented by people who failed to understand TCP/IP for people who failed to understand TCP/IP. > Some of my ports (i.e., 25 and 443) are coming up as closed. Why are > these ports showing up as closed at all? Probably because your ruleset says so. How 'bout letting us take an actual look at it? Besides, it doesn't matter at all if they show up, as long as they're closed. Regards Ansgar Wiechers -- "The Mac OS X kernel should never panic because, when it does, it seriously inconveniences the user." --http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2004/tn2118.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
