As far as I know this is the way it should be, I mean
you closed the access from outside; but not from your server.
So someone from outside cannot connect to them, but you, from
a shell on the server, can, of course...
Or did I misunderstood the question?

Greetz,
Bencze.

On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, 1stFlight wrote:

> I recently had a friend port scan me as a test of my ip_tables based firewall
> And like I wanted he discovered there were no ports open. However if I do a 
> "netstat -a | grep LISTEN" I see
> 
> tcp        0      0 localhost.localdom:1024 *:*                     LISTEN
> tcp        0      0 *:printer               *:*                     LISTEN
> tcp        0      0 *:sunrpc                *:*                     LISTEN
> tcp        0      0 *:x11                   *:*                     LISTEN
> tcp        0      0 *:ssh                   *:*                     LISTEN
> 
> 
> What's going on here? Did I mess up my config? Thanks!
> 
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>                 Darryl
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