"Kenneth E. Lussier" wrote:
>    With that said, my recommendations are :
> 1) Take a look at PortSentry (http://www.psionic.com/abacus/), or the
> entire abacus suite of tools. It watches your ports, and it can block IP
> addresses on the fly. I have my system to set up as soon as someone hits
> port 0.
[snip]

On this note, what exactly is the nature of port 0?  I've heard that on
some forms of network equipment, it can be/has been used for denial of
service attacks?  I see no mention of it in /etc/services.

Is there something special about it?

-Cole

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