Have you added the line:

iptables -A INPUT -i ppp0 -p udp --dport 139 -j DROP

to your iptables script. 

Dave.

On Sun, 27 Jan 2002 13:42:41 -0500
daRcmaTTeR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Fri, 25 Jan 2002 07:26:23 -0700
> Lee Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> studiouisly spake these words to ponder:
> 
> > I made the statement that none of my UDP ports are blocked. Most are
> > showing closed but there are a couple showing open. I would have expected
> > that the default policy would be DENY but that doesn't appear to be the
> > case. I'm trying to learn the details about creating iptables so that I
> > can resolve this issue. Also, I am allowing access to TCP port 22 (using
> > Bastille)  but I can't seem to connect to it even though a port scan shows
> > it open (just another problem with Bastille).
> > 
> > Like I previously stated, it's a good thing I don't have anything on the
> > Linux box that needs to be secured at this time. :-D
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> I can relate to the a UDP port needing to be closed, and not being able to
> get it done. At the moment I'd love to get port 139 closed to the outside
> interface, but no matter what it's just not working out that way. Prolly
> something simple that I'm missing.
> 
> As for your port 22 if you've got Portsentry running it's very likely that
> "it" detected your connection attemtp and has done it's thing in blocking
> access to that port. That is a very common occurance. Since you can't
> connect even though a port scan shows it open I'm willing to bet that it's
> cause Portsentry is blocking access.
> 
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> 
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