Satan: Improving the Security of Your Site by Breaking Into it

Since you cannot get in, maybe you need to break in.

SATAN is a tool to help systems administrators. It recognizes several  
common networking-related security problems, and reports the problems  
without actually exploiting them.
Maybe you will be able to use the tools to diagnose the problem. Some  
of the tools plow right through "blockages".


http://www.porcupine.org/satan/


On Dec 22, 2005, at 11:08 PM, Bill Rising wrote:

> On Dec 22, 2005, at 20:53, Jerry Yeager wrote:
>
>> I seem to be able to pop right in (both via the 12.2xxxx and via  
>> the rising.homedns.org address) to view your intro and follow-up  
>> page with the appropriate showing of Edvard's "The Scream".
>

My machine is still popping right on in, quite quickly.


> OK. This is more than I can do. Even with my wife's computer, I can  
> neither see the web page nor use ssh.
>
>> Do you think it will ever be returned to the museum for public  
>> viewing?
>>
>> Are you using any kind of tracing to see where/how far your  
>> original requests go before dropping out? (maybe the satan  
>> packages will help with that).
>
> No - I don't know how to do this. If I try using traceroute, all I  
> get is the * of unknowing. As for the satan packages --- I found  
> reference to them at CERT, and found the source at purdue, but I'm  
> not sure what I would use it for once I went through making and  
> configging and all that fun unix stuff. What would it be good for?
>

Hmm, where is your "start machine" sitting?


> Bill

                        Jerry

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