On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 01:42:14PM -0800, Ben Barrett wrote: > > [root@benBox /etc]# telnet localhost 6667 > Trying 127.0.0.1... > Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1). > Escape character is '^]'. > Connection closed by foreign host.
> portsentry actually binds to > the list of ports in /etc/portsentry/portsentry.conf > so that resulting scans make the system appear generic and running lots > of services! Is the idea behind portsentry to ba a "fly catcher" (I can think of any other reason to fake services), an if so, how would listening on 127.0.0.1 achieve this? -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
