On Wednesday 17 Nov 2004 20:34, Stephen K�hn wrote: > On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 10:20, hackhound wrote: > > My ISP assigns me a dynamic IP address. My DSL modem/router is > > configured only to allow ports 22 (SSH) and 80 (HTTP) to passthough to > > my ML9.2 box. I ran Nmap to confirm this, and it came back saying > > that ports 23 (Telnet) and 80 were open. I then went to www.grc.com > > and ran a port probe from there. It told me just what I was > > expecting, ports 22 and 80. So, my question is, why is this disparity > > happening? > > > > Thanks, > > Hackhound > > There is probably a firewall setup on your router. Admin the router - > check it out (you should be able to access the router via a browser, > right?) > FWIW we have exactly the same situation, so my son-in-law tried to ftp in from work, but was denied access. I know we have it set to allow internal ftp but not external, but I don't know how that would affect what can be seen by these scanners.
Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet?
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