nmap scans should show this port as 'filtered'. So, the answer is yes.
Thanks,
Ron DuFresne
On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Boryan Yotov wrote:
> Hello, everybody. I'm newbie at the firewall area :) so this question could sound a
>litle bit silly.
>
> I would like to ask you if there is a way to understand whether a port on a remote
>machine is firewalled or just not opened.
> I use iptables to setup a firewall and I set a ACCEPT target for TCP port 80 for all
>"trusted" connections. All other
> connections to this port are DROP-ed (the INPUT chain policy is set to DROP).I'm
>currious whether someone could
> detect that the port is existing but firewalled e.g. available just for a few hosts.
>
>
>
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