Hmm. I better not use portsentry then.
Didn't think of that Tim. :(
Maybe I can just use a log scanner and write a cron script to work with 
it and iptables together.


Tim Fournet wrote:

>Portsentry has to be explicitly told which ports to monitor. It actually
>makes the machine listen on those ports in order to monitor them. The
>problem with running things like portsentry is that you can DoS a
>portsentry host by spoofing source IP addresses to make the host block
>those IPs. For instance, if I know you're running portsentry, I'll spoof
>your ISP's DNS servers and get myself blocked, thereby killing your
>ability to do DNS lookups. 
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>On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 14:03, Wade wrote:
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>>Anybody know of a good "live" portscan monitor?
>>Not looking for one that looks at logs.
>>I've tired portsentry and like the way it can add a iptable rule but it 
>>doesn't catch them all for some reason.
>>Any suggestions?
>>
>>Wade
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